Nun Quotes - Page 10

• I did 12 years with nuns, you know. So I came out of it going, like, 'I think Jesus is all right.' The rest of it I think stinks to the high heavens.

  Denis Leary

  Jesus, Thinking, Years

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• I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for very few people.

  Karen Armstrong

  People, Suitable

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• I don't think the government (of El Salvador) was responsible. The nuns were not just nuns; the nuns were political activists. We ought to be a little more clear-cut about this than we usually are. They were political activists on behalf of the Frente and somebody who is using violence to oppose the Frente killed them.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Cutting, Thinking, Government

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• A primatologist told me you can find love in the eyes of an orangutan. It's that old primate gleam that goes back thousands of years and can penetrate the deepest gloom of the jungle. Nothing can deter that gleam, which is why we primates have survived for so long to meet and procreate. In prison, the survival of romance is not easy, but it finds a way ... In Canada, there has been a succession of romances between prisoners and female guards, nurses, librarians, and one Catholic nun who married the convict after he divorced his wife.

  Shawn Thompson

  Eye, Years, Nurse

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• A person who actually knows how to wear clothes...they would look good in any clothes. You see this especially at the Academy Awards. Even if the dresses are beautiful and expensive and important, the actresses can't always carry them. Sometimes I feel like saying to them, "Act! You know how to act, you're an actor. You're about to win an award for, I don't know, convincingly playing that Venezuelan nun who went to war. Now act like you can wear this dress.".

  Fran Lebowitz

  Beautiful, War, Winning

  Source: www.elle.com

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• You know who you are. If my mother is a nun and someone comes up to me and they go, 'Your mother is a prostitute.' It is not going to bother me, because I know my mother is a nun, she's not a prostitute.

  Paul Mooney

  Mother, Come Up, Bother

  "CNN Talkback Live" with Bobbie Battista, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2001.

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• I went to an all-girls' Christian convent school run by nuns. It was fun, but when I was 15, I said, 'Mum, that's it - I need to go where there are some boys.'

  Freida Pinto

  Girl, Christian, Running

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• Ha! Easy for nuns to talk about giving up things. That's what they do for a living.

  Garrison Keillor

  Giving Up, Giving, Easy

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• My mother was an ex-nun, and my father was a Franciscan brother, so I grew up believing in Jesus the way anyone would believe in Mom's first husband.

  John Fugelsang

  Mom, Mother, Jesus

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• Catholic media sucks. It's boring. It's for old people. It's not interesting. It's like you're in a class with an 80 year old nun.

  Lino Rulli

  Class, Media, Years

  "A talk with Lino Rulli, 'Catholic Guy' & 'Sinner'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• If I could look back at the seeds of faith, they were planted back then. I remember in my early teenage years - when, naturally, we become more rebellious, prideful, self-directed and self-willed - I had this nun, Sister Mary Martinella, I'll never forget her - only because of one thing that she said that stuck in my spirit. And it was a rebuke.

  Patricia Mauceri

  Teenage, Years, Self

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I loved nuns when I was growing up. I thought they were beautiful. For several years I wanted to be a nun. I saw them as really pure, disciplined, above average people. They had these serene faces. Nuns are sexy.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Beautiful, Sexy, Growing Up

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• I don't think that necessarily I was encouraged by the nuns and the priest to consider alternate possibilities to the universe.

  William Mapother

  Thinking, Possibility, Priests

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I am Albanian by birth. Now I am a citizen of India. I am also a Catholic nun. In my work, I belong to the whole world. But in my heart, I belong to Christ.

  Mother Teresa

  Heart, Catholic, India

  Mother Teresa (1987). “My Life for the Poor”

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