Catholic family Quote by Evelyn Waugh Download Open image ““I've usually found every Catholic family has one lapsed member, and it's often the nicest.”” — Evelyn Waugh ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Catholic family Family
“So I sit and endure the stares and the pangs and twinges of Catholic guilt, knowing that I am doing the right thing if… — Pete Hautman Copy Share Image
“Our lives are so diversified, internal attitudes so varied, appearances and capabilities so different, that there is no possible classification so catholic that it… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“If you’ve never been to a Catholic Mass, don’t worry, it’s still going on, you still have time to catch it.” — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
“My mother was a good Catholic -- she went to mass twice a week at St. Mary's in Richmond, but my father was an… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“After a year or two of sitting out, being called out, and sometimes being left out, I was sent to the office, and arrived to find God waiting for me. At least that’s who I thought it was. It turned out to be a bishop. He handed me a mimeographed copy of the Nicene Creed and we went through it,… — Brené Brown Copy Share
“There is no doubt that, if ever my heart were to call my master Chance by another name, I should make an excellent Catholic.” — Colette Copy Share Image
“One of the good things about a Catholic church is that it isn't respectable," she had told Richard. "You can find anyone in it,… — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
“There has been something missing from this experience of Catholicism that I've plunged into to such a surprising depth. It's the women.” — Kaya Oakes Copy Share Image
“Maybe I was a closet Catholic who, once taking the vows, can never lay them aside.” — Mark Wildyr Copy Share Image
“Well, my family has been Catholic for generations, so doesn’t that make me Catholic?’ ‘That’s lazy, sloppy abuse of language. My family has been… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable. It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, and one to which he… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share
One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Sometimes," Helena continued, "I have a terrible dream of the future. Not now, but presently, people may forget their loyalty to their kings and… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Rex has never been unkind to me intentionally. It's just that he isn't a real person at all; he's just a few faculties of… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper... — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“My dear, I should like to stick you full of barbed arrows like a p-p-pin cushion...Where do you lurk? I shall come down your… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Beware the Anglo-Catholics. They're all sodomites with unpleasant accents." --Cousin Jasper” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“The fortnight at Venice passed quickly and sweetly-- perhaps too sweetly; I was drowning in honey, stingless.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“It’s awful to think that I shall probably never, as long as I live, see you dancing like that again all by yourself.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. ... Or it may be a private bargain between me and God, that if I give up this one thing I want so much, however bad I am, He won't… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share
His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I think being raised within a Mexican Catholic family made magical realism a very natural part of who I am as a person and as a writer. My parents always told us great stories that often had magical elements and roots within Mexican folklore. Also, I remember my father reading a book to me, when I was very young, about… — Daniel Olivas Copy Share
I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left home when… — Gerry Cooney Copy Share Image
My mother, father and brothers (I was the youngest of three boys), were all very sarcastic and we were a complete Irish-Catholic family. We didn't talk about our feelings ever, and if we did, we were yelling about them - there was no in-between. That's just carried over so many ways in my life and sabotaged relationships, sabotaged creative stuff. — Anthony Green Copy Share
I was a huge fan of J. Courtney Sullivan's novel 'Maine,' and like that novel, 'Saint' is a family saga set in Boston. Irish… — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven. — Rose of Lima Copy Share Image
I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early imprinting and conditioning made me a life-long radical. My education was mostly scientific, majoring in electrical engineering and applied math. Those imprints made me a life-long rationalist. I have become increasingly skeptical about, or detached from, the assumption… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share
“Fix the Family, a conservative, Catholic “family values” organization, published a list of reasons why families should not send their daughters to college. The… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
My uncle's the archbishop of Jamaica. It is a very Catholic family. There was no monkey business going on. — Michelle Buteau Copy Share Image
We have no salaries. When one says he is from a good Catholic family and says he wants to help us, why should we… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
And I'm a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt. — Bob Gunton Copy Share Image
My mom was very spiritual. We were a Catholic family. We read the Bible at a young age. I have two brothers and a sister. We're all very close. That was part of our childhood. But when I went to college and then got drafted and played in Anaheim, it was a life changer for me. I was exposed to… — Matt Cullen Copy Share
I grew up in a Catholic family in the Midwest. And I knew people of different faiths and people that were atheists and people… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image