Nun Quotes

153 Nun quotes by 134 unique authors

A girl who is really pretty - whether she wraps herself in an abayah, a nun's habit, or the front hall rug - never wraps… — P.J. O'Rourke
Celibacy is one of the most unnatural things. It has destroyed so many human beings - millions - Catholic monks, Hindu monks, Buddhist monks, Jaina… — Rajneesh
If I knew where the good songs came from, Iâ€™d go there more often. Itâ€™s a mysterious condition. Itâ€™s much like the life of a… — Leonard Cohen
One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one… — Dave Van Ronk
I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the… — Anjelica Huston
I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict. — Sofia Vergara
With so many mind-bytes to be downloaded, so many mental codons to be replicated, it is no wonder that child brains are gullible, open to… — Richard Dawkins
I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn. After a while, all my characters… — Meg Tilly
But the blessed Bishop of Geneva taught his nuns another kind of prayer, which even the sick can make: to remain peacefully in the presence… — Vincent de Paul
My nun, which is how I think of her, was the most profound witness for God's love I've ever encountered in this world. She was… — Cathleen Falsani
I hope that Beyond the Robe helps you to feel closer to the monks and nuns and to better understand their immense potential to provide… — Bobby Sager
To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists - the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador - are in absurd and tragic… — Michael Novak
For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the… — George A. Romero
American Women: How they mortify the flesh in order to make it appetizing! Their beauty is a vast industry, their enduring allure a discipline which… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells. — William Wordsworth
Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to… — Desmond Morris
All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches… — Edna O'Brien
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun, a monk's confession,… — Mary McCarthy
I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented… — Zosia Mamet
The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work. — Frederick Lenz

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