Catholic Quote by Zach Anner

My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all…

— Zach Anner

On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New…

— Barack Obama

I grew up the son of a Seventh Day Adventist minister, so I was really close to the church and sang church music between…

— Al Jarreau

My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respected person in our church outside of…

— Jane Pauley

My grandfather was a church organist and would sing in choirs and was a musical genius to a certain extent.

— Jack Garratt

My mother and grandmother had me in church, and I was the kid that played in church. But pastor was telling me something totally…

— Joe Gibbs

“church organist for the past twenty-one years, stroked the last notes of “Faith of Our Fathers.” The next several minutes were ritual Catholic routine—up,…

— Mary Campisi

For me, church was about not only religion but about community. A woman in my grandmother's church helped pay for my SAT classes when…

— Jamila Woods

The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill.

— Mavis Staples

I grew up in the church, Resurrection Baptist Church in Philadelphia, and my grandmother was that grandmother at the church, the one always at…

— Will Smith

When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.

— Karin Slaughter

“‎He decided quite suddenly, having kept fairly good record on the calendar, that tomorrow was Christmas Eve, and zombies be damned. The Christmas lights…

— Joe R. Lansdale