Catholic Quotes - Page 40

• For someone whose roots in America were strong but only inches deep, and who had no experience, such as a Catholic child might, of an awesome hierarchy that was real and felt, baseball was a kind of secular church that reached into every class and region of the nation and bound millions upon millions of us together in common concerns, loyalties, rituals, enthusiasms, and antagonisms. Baseball made me understand what patriotism was about, at its best.

  Philip Roth

  Loyalty, Baseball, Strong

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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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• ......the interesting thing was that the Roman Catholic monks and the Buddhist monks had no trouble understanding each other. Each of them was seeking the same experience and knew that the experience was incommunicable. The communication is only an effort to bring the hearer to the edge of the abyss; it is a signpost, not the thing itself. But the secular clergy reads the communication and gets stuck with the letter, and that's where you have the conflict.

  Joseph Campbell

  Buddhist, Communication, Interesting

  Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.28, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The reason I went to an all-boys Catholic school was because they had the best football team. We won the state championship my junior year. It was super-competitive. We lost in the semifinals my senior year, and it still haunts me.

  Theo Rossi

  Senior, Football, Team

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• We are here a nation, composed of the most heterogeneous elements-Protestants and Catholics, English, French, German, Irish, Scotch, every one, let it be remembered, with his traditions, with his prejudices. In each of these conflicting antagonistic elements, however, there is a common spot of patriotism, and the only true policy is that which reaches that common patriotism and makes it vibrate in all toward common ends and common aspirations.

  Wilfrid Laurier

  Scotch, Elements, Prejudice

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• Like most Catholic boys, I wanted to be Jesus Christ. I could never get the turn-the-other-cheek thing down, though.

  Jim Carrey

  Jesus, Boys, Christ

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• [My catholic education] sticked with me. It caused the rage I had to make 'Pink Flamingos.'

  John Waters

  Flamingos, Rage, Catholic Education

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• I'm not Catholic but the Virgin Mary fascinates me because she's like a folk hero.

  Moby

  Hero, Mary, Folks

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• I think the word is counter-productive. Capitalism is counter-productive to art, just as the Catholic Church was counter-productive to art four hundred years ago.

  Mick Farren

  Art, Thinking, Years

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Between Pope Francis tour of the U.S. which I think was a triumph really for liberals, he really sort of for the first time in a long time made the Catholics sort of on the side of liberalism.

  Joy-Ann Reid

  Thinking, Long, Triumph

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I was raised Catholic. I didn't appreciate the guilt and sin part of it.

  John Densmore

  Appreciate, Guilt, Sin

  "John Densmore on Life, Love, Meditation and His New Book, 'The Doors: Unhinged'". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• It's something that exists on a daily basis on practically every street in India. You have people who are Hindus, Muslims, Christians - not just Catholics, but Protestants, you name it, all kinds of Christians - a hundred other religions, living side by side. And the kind of personal religion that people end up practicing is a bizarre concoction of ritual drawn from each other. So everybody ends up celebrating everyone else's festivals.

  Anita Rau Badami

  Christian, Names, People

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• Growing up, Catholic church really was such an incubator for my imagination, because all of those mysteries felt embedded in this insanely green, tropical landscape: the ocean nearby, the giant banyan trees. It all felt part of one seamless mystery to me.

  Karen Russell

  Growing Up, Ocean, Imagination

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The attitude of the Catholic Church towards homosexuality is well known - it is treated as something unnatural, even as a disease.

  Malgorzata Szumowska

  Attitude, Church, Disease

  "Berlin Q&A: Director Malgorzata Szumowska". Interview with Kirill Galeststski, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.

  Julianna Baggott

  Imagination, Raised

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• My Irish Catholic mother loved romantic movies, provided they ended with a kiss before the screen went dark. If things went any further than that, she'd complain, Why can't they leave something to the imagination? I sort of subscribe to her philosophy when it comes to writing sex.

  Catherine Brady

  Mother, Sex, Philosophy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was a very nice boy. I was well-educated ... very Catholic family. So I was very respectful, never late at work. I was always the last one to leave. It's always been that way in my life.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Nice, Boys, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have one vivid memory of one of the days that the marches were taking place. We were in a Catholic, predominantly Polish and Lithuanian neighborhood. Chicago is a place where people define themselves by their parish and by their ethnicity.

  Sara Paretsky

  Memories, Ethnicity, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• While we were walking around, we came to the Catholic church, and we saw that some people had set fire to carpets and banked them around the rectory, which was made out of wood. They knew every fire truck on the South Side was going to be in the park, that the rectory would just burn to the ground. Our one little act was putting out that fire.

  Sara Paretsky

  Fire, People, Church

  Source: www.progressive.org

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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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• They [teachers] beat it right out of me. Or they beat it into me and educated it out of me. I don't know; that's an interesting question. The Catholic schools required work, so I think that may have been where the work ethic came from, in answer to the question of how my character may have been shaped.

  William Mapother

  Teacher, School, Character

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• So, in Kennedy's case, he was a Catholic. And people thought after the Al Smith election and so forth that a Catholic couldn't win in the United States. But when he was able to win in West Virginia, he proved that a Catholic could win, even in a heavily Protestant state.

  Geoffrey Cowan

  Winning, Virginia, People

  "The American Political Invention That 'Let The People Rule'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.

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• My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn. But it was more for me - it was that women of that generation were even less likely to express themselves, more likely to have that active interior life that they didn't dare speak out. So I was interesting in women of that era. I was interested in the language of that era. There's so much. And, certainly, this is cultural, so much there wasn't spoken about.

  Alice McDermott

  Speaks Out, Interesting, Parent

  "Alice McDermott invokes a voice little heard in life or literature for 'Someone'". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 8, 2013.

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• What we argue in the piece is that the headscarf has become a political symbol for an ideology of Islam that is exported to the world by the theocracies of the governments of Iran and Saudi Arabia. Just like the Catholic Church in the 17th century did religious propaganda to challenge the Protestant Reformation, these ideologies are trying to define the way Muslims express Islam in the world.

  Asra Nomani

  Religious, Government, Iran

  "The Case Against Wearing Hijab To Support Muslim Women". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. December 22, 2015.

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• I know married Catholics in a second union who go to church, who go to church once or twice a year and say I want communion, as if joining in Communion were an award. It's a work towards integration, all doors are open, but we cannot say, 'from here on they can have communion.'

  Pope Francis

  Awards, Doors, Joining In

  In-flight interview from Mexico to Rome, www.catholicnewsagency.com. February 18, 2016.

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