Nun Quotes

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I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for very few people. — Karen Armstrong
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. — Ambrose Bierce
I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named… — Madonna Ciccone
I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family,… — Julie Andrews
A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them. — William Shakespeare
It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At what point sin… — Bertrand Russell
I'll be a nun, raise my daughter, and make albums. — Brandy Norwood
Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways. — Christina, Queen of Sweden
The other day I was down by the Hudson River, and I see two nuns in full habit rollerblading down the street holding hands. And… — Regina Spektor
Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a… — Guy de Maupassant
I heard that someone asked Mother Teresa what was most important in her work. I thought she'd say the Rosary but she said, 'My nuns… — Valerie Harper
A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man. — H. L. Mencken
Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train. — John Milton
The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and… — Victor Hugo
The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive… — Alice Walker
I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body. — Joe Orton
From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run… — Thandie Newton
Almost everyone has or will experience getting dumped in their lifetime. Unless, of course, you're a nun. Jesus can't dump nuns. — Jenny McCarthy
I don't think people will ever forget I was an 'Angel,' anymore than they'll forget Sally Field was 'The Flying Nun.' — Cheryl Ladd
Christians â€“ whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever â€“ have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of… — Patricia Heaton

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