I went to Catholic school and experienced racism firsthand from nuns and priests. — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
Dog’ is ‘God’ spelled backward; you know that. That’s why you’re here, to help the nuns do God’s work. — W. Bruce Cameron Copy Share Image
I know what nuns are, kind of. It's just I never saw one. I didn't know they looked like penguins. — Lesley Howarth Copy Share Image
“later we heard that the nuns from this convent took those Jewish children and gave them to the Germans, and no one… — Matthew A. Rozell Copy Share Image
On social welfare the Church does so much good around the world - nuns running schools and homeless shelters, priests ministering to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“What?" He was frowning now. "No bathing suit? Are you sure you're not a nun?" "Some nuns swim.” — April Lindner Copy Share Image
Both nuns and mothers worship images, But those the candles light are not as those That animate a mother's reveries, But keep… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
My mom dragged me by my ear to Catholic school because I was a cutup and thought I needed to see the… — Ed Henry Copy Share Image
It's a funny thing about being raised Catholic and then going to Catholic schools with nuns - the cliche about the mean… — Ann Dowd Copy Share Image
“Are you okay?" asked Finisterre. "Annoyed," I said, giving him my hand so he could heave me to my feet. "Yes, I… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
It's interesting that in those countries like Taiwan or Korea, where nuns are given equal opportunities for study and practice, they also… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“She lay outside in the courtyard, staring up at the raindrops… feeling them hit her body… trying to guess where one would… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“It is hardly lonely in a nunnery, son, with other women. And God is there." Morgause said, "I would rather dwell in… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
“one of the kinder nuns had lauded Carol for how original she was in her sinfulness, as if God had yet to… — Matthew J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn. After a while,… — Meg Tilly Copy Share Image
I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
People are quite clear in viewing nuns as the servants and the teachers and the supporters of the poor. You contrast that… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Jesus, yes. I was educated by nuns. Long ago, when I was a human girl. I learned the Bible, studied the verses,… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
I could become a nun even if I am a non-believer. I'll learn to fake it like Nick did with me. I… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
“I'm sympathetic to the nuns' violent impulses. I mean, if I'd given up sex to devote myself to a man who I… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
I remember one time when all the nuns in my Catholic grade school got around in a semicircle, me and Mom in… — Chris Farley Copy Share Image
We are now in 126 countries. We have 561 houses - tabernacles we call them - and over 4600 nuns. It's simply… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I attended Catholic school. We received a great education from the nuns. ... Also, guilt. Guilt and a feeling of never being… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Rush Limbaugh, we expect nonsense from him. But the Vatican, that's another story. When the Vatican is so threatened that it launches… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
The new nuns don't know that they're 'supposed' to be meek and submissive, and so in many ways they believe they can… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
IT is an astonishing thing that historians will look back and puzzle over, that in the 21st century, American women were such… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
I do have a lot of deep religious iconography. I have crosses all over my house, and there's something very attractive about… — Rick Springfield Copy Share Image
