Nun Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• It's always a good idea to have a nun next to you when you get arrested!

  Shane Claiborne

  Ideas, Next, Arrested

  "Plotting goodness together: An interview with Shane Claiborne". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. May 22, 2013.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Whenever folks say radical Christianity is "a phase" of youth, I tell them they need to meet our 80-year-old nun or my friend Tony Campolo.

  Shane Claiborne

  Years, Needs, Phases

  "Plotting goodness together: An interview with Shane Claiborne". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. May 22, 2013.

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• Nigerian nun Bernadette Duru says the African church hierarchy is indifferent to people in rural areas.

  Sylvia Poggioli

  People, Church, Rural Areas

  "Pope Francis To Focus On Social Justice Issues During Trip To Africa". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. November 24, 2015.

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• They're [zombies] us, you can also have the wrestler zombie, the clown zombie, the Jay Leno zombie and the nun zombie. I've never seen the clown werewolf or vampire. But because zombies are us, at the lowest possible level, they're a lot more versatile for storytelling.

  Tom Savini

  Zombie, Vampire, Levels

  Source: collider.com

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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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• 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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• When the Irish nun said to me, "Speak your name loud and clear so that all the boys and girls can hear you," she was asking me to use language publicly, with strangers. That's the appropriate instruction for a teacher to give. If she were to say to me, "We are going to speak now in Spanish, just like you do at home. You can whisper anything you want to me, and I am going to call you by a nickname, just like your mother does," that would be inappropriate. Intimacy is not what classrooms are about.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Girl, Mother, Teacher

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• By the time I went to the Catholic University of America, which was the time the priests were all leaving with the nuns, the more I studied about the Bible and how it came about, the more I lost my faith.

  Susan Sarandon

  America, Catholic, Leaving

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

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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 became a writer not because my father was one - my father made false teeth for a living. I became a writer because the Irish nuns who educated me taught me something about bravery with their willingness to give so much to me.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Father, Giving, Bravery

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• It didn't seem to have relevance, except in Central America or South America, countries where the church was connected to the fight of the people for economic justice. That's why it was so interesting to find myself back with Sister Helen [in Dead Man Walking], this new breed of nuns who were making a difference in the community.

  Susan Sarandon

  Country, Fighting, Men

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

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• There are a lot of people who had past lives where they were monks and nuns and all their needs were provided for them. I feel like most people in the new age had this as their most recent lifetime experience, that kind of communal living.

  Doreen Virtue

  Past, People, Age

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