Being Quote by David Draiman

So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a…

— Thomas Keneally

I went to school four years later than most people because I was a teen father, hustled on the streets, worked, lived on welfare…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I wanted to be a soccer player. And then I wanted to be a rabbi.

— Jake Epstein

I was thinking very carefully about going into education, becoming a teacher, maybe becoming a rabbi.

— Ezra Furman

As a matter of fact, I decided in high school that I was going to go to the seminary. And I did study with…

— Bob Gunton

I had a life experience that most of my - that none of my friends had. I remember I became everybody's rabbi. Everybody who…

— Jeff Ross

I went back to school because I wanted to be in a seminary just to learn.

— Manny Ramirez

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

— Al Sharpton

I focused on my career. I grew up super Christian, both my parents are ministers, so I did a purity ceremony when I was…

— Jessica Williams

I went into the seminary when I was 16.

— Clarence Thomas

I went to Temple Emanu-El, and my rabbi, Rabbi Landsberg, was a huge influence on me. When I was 7 and went to kindergarten,…

— David Bryan

I studied with the idea of becoming a Catholic priest.

— Peter Jurasik