Nun Quotes - Page 4

• I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Mean, Catholic, Church

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• I always had a problem with original sin; I always had a problem with the exclusivity of the church and a lot of the things that the nuns taught me.

  Susan Sarandon

  Church, Taught, Problem

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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• Oh you know me. I have no emotions. I'm a robot. Or a nun. A robot nun.

  David Nicholls

  Robots, Emotion, Know Me

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.63, Hachette UK

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• My nun, which is how I think of her, was the most profound witness for God's love I've ever encountered in this world. She was a magnet for lost souls, a petite fortress of strength and unconditional love. What this sprightly, silly, lovely woman did from the obscurity of a faded convent in Rust Belt Chicago was to fulfill in a passionate, tireless way the supreme commandment of Jesus' gospel every day of her life.

  Cathleen Falsani

  Jesus, Silly, Unconditional Love

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• I'll be a nun, raise my daughter, and make albums.

  Brandy Norwood

  Daughter, Mother, Albums

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What news? There's nothing to tell. I'm a nun.

  Ken Follett

  News

  Ken Follett (2008). “World Without End”, p.639, Pan Macmillan

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• At the age of 21 I was so sensible and became a nun. I am very grateful to myself for that.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Grateful, Age, Sensible

  Source: fpmt.org

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• If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy.

  Anna Quindlen

  Catholic, Church, Hierarchy

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• Maybe I wanted children, maybe I didn't, but I wanted the decision to be a choice, not a mandate. Last time I checked, childlessness was only supposed to be a condition of career advancement for nuns.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Children, Careers, Choices

  Peggy Orenstein (2010). “Waiting for Daisy: The True Story of One Couple's Quest to Have a Baby”, p.8, A&C Black

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• I know what nuns are, kind of. It's just I never saw one. I didn't know they looked like penguins.

  Lesley Howarth

  Saws, Penguins, Kind

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• I've been compiling a list of art project ideas for a long time. These are ideas of things I would love to see someday. They range from the practical - jackets with woodstoves in them - to the sublime - images of nuns on waterslides.

  Misha Collins

  Art, Ideas, Long

  Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Teacher, Appreciation, Retirement

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• It hurts me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car, you can't do this. A car is necessary to do a lot of work, but please, choose a more humble one. If you like the fancy one, just think about how many children are dying of hunger in the world.

  Pope Francis

  Hurt, Children, Humble

  "Is it too early to say Francis is the best pope ever?". www.msnbc.com. September 12, 2013.

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• I mean, I knew I wasn't a nice person, but what did I do in my past life to deserve this? I must have hit a bus full of nuns while driving a stolen car on my way to selling drugs to schoolchildren!

  Joss Whedon

  Nice, Mean, Past

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• I like to see the positive. I went to Madrid when I was 18 and did a TV show there. Really, my first job was in Madrid and I was on my own. I think it teaches you how to be independent and survive on your own and not really need anyone, although I definitely needed help in Madrid. It was kind of a disaster. I ended up living with nuns, but that's a whole other story.

  Ana Mulvoy-Ten

  Independent, Thinking, Helping

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was educated by nuns. None of them, of course, did anything resembling the actions of Lydia from The Handmaid's Tale, but they taught me a work ethic, that I had to toe the line, that I had to step up and do my work, and that we would stay until it was done, and that came from a devotion to making you the best person you can be. That's the take I have on Lydia. She knows her actions are firm and sometimes very harsh, but she also looks after them.

  Ann Dowd

  Work Ethic, Done, Ethics

  Source: collider.com

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• My crazy parents and those crazy Catholic nuns didn't do a good job of forcing me to keep the Ten Commandments, but they kept me forever fixated on the very idea of a taboo.

  Jim Goad

  Jobs, Crazy, Ideas

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• I can't tell how moving it is to open my email and see a picture of 1,500 Buddhist monks and nuns in the Himalayan kingdom of Ladakh forming a human 350 against the backdrop of the melting glaciers. This is not their fault, and yet they're stepping up to be part of the solution.

  Bill McKibben

  Buddhist, Moving, Email

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• On social welfare the Church does so much good around the world - nuns running schools and homeless shelters, priests ministering to people who are in crisis.

  Anna Quindlen

  Running, School, People

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• I don't think anybody should be celibate - and that goes for priests as well as nuns. I don't even like to alter a cat. We should all live life to the fullest, and sex is a part of life.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Sex, Live Life, Cat

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• I'm willing to go through a full body scan or anything else you need to. What I am offended by is the absolute unwillingness of Obama's administration. Callista and I did a movie called "America at Risk: The War with No Name," where we outlined - who are the people who've been terrorists in the last three or four years? They're all males. They're all young. They're all fairly identifiable in other ways. So we're going to a point - we're going to have a full body scan of an 83-year-old nun from Des Moines because we don't want to be honest about who our enemies are?

  Newt Gingrich

  War, People, Risk

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I was, not an altar boy, but a reader of the Epistle, and I walked in on a nun and a priest furiously French kissing when I was in seventh grade. I walked in, saw it, and went, "No way," backed out, composed myself, and went back in, and it was still going on. And the experience of seeing that was actually very deep.

  George Saunders

  Kissing, Boys, Way

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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• I can give you a spirit love, I have given you this long, long time; but not embodied passion. See, you are a nun. I have given you what I would give a holy nun...In all our relations no body enters. I do not talk to you through the senses - rather through the spirit. That is why we cannot love in the common sense.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Passion, Long, Common Sense

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• Basically, I want to spend my time in retreat, but to my own amazement, I agreed to help with a project to start a training center for nuns. I agreed because I think it's really very important for the Western Sangha. I don't know how I'm going to help, but it's important.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Thinking, Training, Important

  Source: fpmt.org

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• There is a basic problem that a lot of Western monks and nuns become ordained without really understanding or appreciating what the monastic life is all about.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Appreciate, Understanding, Problem

  Source: fpmt.org

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