Nun Quotes

153 Nun quotes by 134 unique authors

I would love to play a nun. I used to want to be one when I was a kid. — Sheryl Lee
Prison life taught him how little one can get along with, and what extraordinary spiritual freedom and peace such simplification can bring. I remember again,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
JFK used to say the bishops and the cardinals were all Republicans, but the nuns were Democrats! I sort of believe that too. — Kitty Kelley
I was raised Irish Catholic and went to Holy Names Academy, an all-girl's private Catholic school. I loved the nuns there and I love them… — Kitty Kelley
Going to Catholic school was what fueled me into comedy. The nuns were so brutal so I used to try to make my friends laugh. — Downtown Julie Brown
There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try to be funny… — Downtown Julie Brown
People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth… — Jemima Kirke
Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere… — Bharati Mukherjee
Commas, like nuns, often travel in pairs. — Mary Norris
I don't speak during the day. I warm up physically and, obviously, vocally, constantly. And I try to live like a nun. — Kristin Chenoweth
I go to the favelas in Brazil. It's the same in the South Side of Chicago. It's the same, or just more violent. We're trying… — Quincy Jones
I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers… — Andrew Greeley
I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean. — Francis Ford Coppola
I did 12 years with nuns, you know. So I came out of it going, like, 'I think Jesus is all right.' The rest of… — Denis Leary
I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel. — John Lydon
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher,… — Thurgood Marshall
For me, 'Lamb' started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in… — Christopher Moore
All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister… — Bill Murray
I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who… — Martha Plimpton
If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy. — Anna Quindlen

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