Catholic School Quotes

• A good school provides a rounded education for the whole person. And a good Catholic school, over and above this, should help all its students to become saints.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  School, Catholic, Saint

  Address of His Holiness Benedict XVI to pupils, w2.vatican.va. September 17, 2010.

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• Let us thank all those who teach in Catholic schools. Educating is an act of love; it is like giving life.

  Pope Francis

  School, Giving, Catholic

  twitter.com. March 1, 2014.

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• If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

  Lenny Bruce

  Jesus, Children, School

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• Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character... By teaching the word of God, you prepare your students to follow a path of virtue.

  George W. Bush

  Teaching, School, Humor

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• Catholic schools prepare every student to meet the challenges of their future by developing their mind, yes, but also their body and their soul and spirit.

  David Vitter

  School, Catholic, Challenges

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• Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.

  Joe Baca

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Catholic school gave me the tools to reject the very religion they wanted me to have. They taught me how to think for myself and to be independent.

  George Carlin

  School, Independent, Thinking

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• By offering an education centered on values, the faculty in Catholic schools can create an interactive setting between parents and students that is geared toward long-term healthy character and scholastic development for all enrolled children.

  Mark Foley

  Children, School, Character

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• I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child in a community atmosphere.

  Mark Foley

  Children, School, Unique

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• Our Catholic schools exist to help young people attain holiness in their lives, that is, to become saints.

  Salvatore J. Cordileone

  School, People, Catholic

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• You can always tell who went to catholic school, because they're atheists.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Sarcastic, Education, Religious

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• Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

  Joe Baca

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

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• You know, my children go to a local, local catholic school just down the road.

  John Deacon

  Children, School, Catholic

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• You should have seen me in my Catholic school girl skirt with my knees knocking together.

  Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

  Girl, School, Should Have

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• When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Football, School

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• I loved Catholic school. I didn't like being beeped at by old pervs at the gas station because I was wearing a plaid skirt, though. It's like, do you think I'm going to stop and give you my phone number?

  Kristen Bell

  School, Thinking, Phones

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• That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board.

  Charles Tupper

  Religious, Educational, Book

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• I had a very marginal understanding of what faith in God was growing up because, although I went to a Catholic school, without having parents who really were actively involved in faith there was no reinforcement of it. So, as a result of that I guess I just kind of thought that God was somebody that you put in a box and you put Him on a shelf and you called on him when you had crises.

  Patricia Mauceri

  Growing Up, School, Parent

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• They tried to make me go to Catholic school, too. I lasted a very short time. When the penguin came after me with a ruler, I was out of there.

  Frank Zappa

  School, Catholic, Penguins

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• In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.

  Mark Foley

  School, Compassion, Discipline

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• I'm really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use make for great senses of humor.

  Denis Leary

  School, Catholic, Use

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• It's very Canadian of me - or maybe it's more the Catholic schoolgirl in me - but I always really want to do a good job.

  Samantha Bee

  Jobs, Catholic, Want

  Interview with Catherine O’Hara, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 4, 2016.

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• I was raised in Catholic school where we were given a lot of heavy literature and a dense, weighty lyric wasn't strange to me. I didn't need everything to be light and simple for me to see the beauty in it.

  Jennifer Warnes

  School, Simple, Light

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• Ive always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater. I became obsessed with that.

  Daniela Bobadilla

  Girl, School, Catholic

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• I was raised Catholic and went to Catholic school until junior high. I don't believe in transmigration or anything like that. I have resentment for being forced to believe in something. I will always think of the church as an institution and not a comfort.

  Alice Glass

  Believe, School, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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