Catholic School Quotes - Page 2

• I have a lot of mental scars from being brought up Catholic and being sent to Catholic school for 13 years!

  Mat McNerney

  School, Years, Catholic

  "Show No Mercy". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2009.

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• I would not call myself Catholic anymore, but I went to 16 years of Catholic school: grade school, high school and college.

  William Mapother

  School, College, Years

  "Going on From Lost, Actor William Mapother Heads to Another Earth". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2011.

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• I am and have always been a strong proponent of public education. But by the virtue of its very nature - publicly funded schools cannot offer the type of spiritual education that Catholic schools have long provided.

  Mark Foley

  Spiritual, Strong, School

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• I went to a Catholic school with 40 kids total. There were no cliques, but I suppose I was the sporty good girl.

  Taylor Cole

  Girl, School, Kids

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• This is the heritage of Catholic education ... one which those who went to Catholic schools always recognize in each other, members of a secret society who, when they meet, huddle together, temporarily at truce with the rest of the world, while they cautiously, untrustingly, lick each other's wounds.

  Sonia Orwell

  School, Catholic, Secret

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• In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school, two years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies.

  Barack Obama

  Mother, Teacher, School

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.154, Canongate Books

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• I went to Catholic school for 12 years and went to church every Sunday. I may not do that anymore but I think it gave me a good basis. I've also explored things on my own different philosophies and spiritual teachings and I use what works for me.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Teaching

  "Jennifer Lopez talks Shall We Dance?". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. October 13, 2004.

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• I went to a Catholic School, and underneath my school uniform, I wore a metal shirt.

  George Stroumboulopoulos

  School, Catholic, Uniforms

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• We were a religious, practicing, Catholic family - Mass together on Sunday, Catholic schools, and parents who practiced everything they preached. A great gift was their total absence of any derogatory talk about people of any race or culture and we were on a street of many faiths, though no other races at that early time.

  Trina

  Religious, School, Sunday

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• So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since I had felt very strongly in my early schooling being marginalised even in the Catholic school.

  Thomas Keneally

  Sports, School, Australia

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• I went to Catholic school. Do as you're told; don't ask questions and you will be illuminated.

  Katherine Helmond

  School, Catholic, Asks

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• I grew up Irish Catholic with a bunch of kids at Catholic school.

  Brigid Brannagh

  School, Kids, Catholic

  Source: collider.com

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• One of the first things Catholic school taught me is that babies were born sinners. You sucked before you took your first breath.

  Lizz Winstead

  Baby, School, Catholic

  Lizz Winstead (2012). “Lizz Free or Die: Essays”, p.25, Penguin

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• Begin your story with a sentence that will immediately grab hold of your listener's ears like a surly nun in a Catholic school.

  Amy Sedaris

  School, Catholic, Stories

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• I attended Catholic school. We received a great education from the nuns. ... Also, guilt. Guilt and a feeling of never being satisfied with what you've done. And a sense that you are inadequate and a big phony. All useful for a writer. I'm always being edited by my inner nun.

  George Saunders

  School, Catholic, Feelings

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• It is, after all, far too easy to pinch and kick the bizarre Mormon Church; to say it's ripe for satire and parody is to say a Catholic schoolgirl is ripe for debauchery. It's like shooting polygamist fish in a barrel of coffee.

  Mark Morford

  Coffee, Catholic, Church

  "The end of the wicked old Mormons" by Mark Morford, www.sfgate.com. May 7, 2010.

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• According to an article on CNN.com, a new study says people who are bad kissers don't get laid. Where are you supposed to learn how to kiss? If you go to Catholic school, it's from your priest; in public school, you learn from your teacher; and some guys learn from their sisters... if their sister is Angelina Jolie.

  Chelsea Handler

  Teacher, School, Kissing

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• I went to an all-girls Catholic school. And all the nuns just breathed down our necks "abstinence." And that's not the right thing to do. It does not work. Kids will not listen to that. They're going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest. You have to say, "You know what, if you're gonna do it, at least think about the consequences and get protection.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Girl, School, Kids

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• Private boarding schools and Catholic schools on the East Coast are something. Choate really ruined my father's life. He's had nightmares about Choate every since he went there. Treat Williams, who's a good friend, went to Kent School, in Connecticut. The stories I've heard about those places - didn't you have one nun who was just the worst nightmare?

  Laura Dern

  School, Good Friend, Catholic

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• I grew up with a lot of spirituality. It wasn't necessarily organized religion, because my mom was Jewish and my dad was Muslim. I went to Catholic school. There was a lot of conversation about comparative religions.

  Patricia Arquette

  Mom, Dad, School

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• During my childhood years in a Catholic school, one teacher who was more nuts than the rest told me I'd fry in hell if I were a lesbian so I thought maybe the best idea was to be straight.

  Olof Arnalds

  Teacher, School, Years

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• I was nurtured in the church; I went to a Catholic school; I was an altar boy; I went to a Catholic university; I was steeped in the moral tradition of the Catholic Church. My Catholicism plays a very strong role. But I thought President John F.Kennedy answered rather well when he said that ultimately my conduct as a public official does not come ex cathedra from Rome; it comes from my conscience.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Strong, School, Boys

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• To the extent that the parents who send their children to these [Catholic] schools are parents like my own, who actually have faith in the church. Faith that it will provide their children with safety, a decent education and values about life and others. This is an institution that stands for all good in the world.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Children, School, Safety

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I wasn't raised very religiously because my parents went to Catholic school, but I do believe in God very much. I just never gave God a name, if you know what I mean. I hope I haven't let Him down regardless.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Believe, School, Mean

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm able to laugh now, because I've gone through a lot of mental and physical therapy to heal over the years, my music's been wonderful for me. But I was a shell of my former self at one point. I was not myself. To be fair, I was about 19, so ... I went to Catholic school and all this crazy stuff happened, and I was going, 'Oh, is this just the way adults are?' I was very naive.

  Lady Gaga

  Music, Crazy, School

  "Lady Gaga's most revealing interview yet" by Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. December 3, 2014.

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