Even Quote by Satish Kumar

I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.

— Uma Thurman

I certainly haven't lived the life of a Buddhist monk.

— Burton Cummings

When I became a novice monk, I lived in a temple where the atmosphere was quite like in a family. The abbot is like…

— Anonymous

I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam…

— Kabir Bedi

There are a lot of people who had past lives where they were monks and nuns and all their needs were provided for them.…

— Doreen Virtue

I still have the same beliefs as when I was in the monastery.

— Justo Gallego

I would not be happy if I had not become a monk.

— Nhat Hanh

So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.

— Satish Kumar

“Being a monk was the strangest and most perverted way of life imaginable. Monks spent half their lives putting themselves through pain and discomfort…

— Ken Follett

I used to live in Buddhist monasteries and I finally had to leave them because they were just too cluttered for me. They were…

— Frederick Lenz

I remember there was this one lady shaman who said that having children puts a hole in your soul. And the only way to…

— Larkin Grimm

My Dad used to say that the balance of the world relied on all of the monks who were living outside of society in…

— Sufjan Stevens