Nun Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It's interesting that in those countries like Taiwan or Korea, where nuns are given equal opportunities for study and practice, they also develop great social awareness.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Country, Opportunity, Korea

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• I know many Catholic priests and nuns who use the Buddhist teachings to become better Catholics, and Jews who use them to become better Jews. Why not?! It just takes us towards more deeply recognizing our original nature, which is what we all share after all.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Buddhist, Teaching, Catholic

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• The new nuns don't know that they're 'supposed' to be meek and submissive, and so in many ways they believe they can do anything, because they've seen the earlier ones do it. In this way, there's nothing for them to doubt.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Believe, Doubt, Way

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• If nuns begin getting more empowered, where does that leave us?

  Tenzin Palmo

  Doe, Empowered, Ifs

  Source: fpmt.org

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• To be a nun is a very great blessing. It's a great inspiration to think that the Sangha goes all the way back to the Buddha and that so many fantastic, really truly-realized beings have been ordained. Thinking of all those members, such a wonderful, exalted and holy order - I love the Sangha.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Inspiration, Blessing, Thinking

  Source: fpmt.org

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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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• People are quite clear in viewing nuns as the servants and the teachers and the supporters of the poor. You contrast that with the fact that the Vatican did virtually nothing about long-known pedophiles, and it's just too much.

  Gloria Steinem

  Teacher, Long, People

  "The Humanist Interview with Gloria Steinem" by Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. August 14, 2012.

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• Maitake mushrooms are known in Japan as “the dancing mushroom.” According to a Japanese legend, a group of Buddhist nuns and woodcutters met on a mountain trail, where they discovered a fruiting of maitake mushrooms emerging from the forest floor. Rejoicing at their discovery of this delicious mushroom, they danced to celebrate.

  Paul Stamets

  Buddhist, Mushrooms, Discovery

  "Maitake: The Magnificent ‘Dancing’ Mushroom" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2013.

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• The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel path between manicured lawns. She would have in tow one or two slower-footed, sari-clad young Indian nuns. We thought her a freak. Probably wed picked up on unvoiced opinions of our Loreto nuns.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Mother, Two, Childhood

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• I do have a lot of deep religious iconography. I have crosses all over my house, and there's something very attractive about seeing nuns walking down the street. It's not a sexual thing for me; I know it is for some guys.

  Rick Springfield

  Religious, House, Guy

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• When I'm drafting right to life language, I don't call up the nuns.

  Bart Stupak

  Language, Drafting, Right To Life

  "Rep. Stupak Dismisses Letter from Nuns" by Jake Gibson, www.foxnews.com. March 17, 2010.

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• Celibacy doesn't make you enlightened, otherwise every nun or priest in Buddhism or Christianity would be enlightened. People who don't date and can't get any action would be enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Would Be

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• Both nuns and mothers worship images,
  But those the candles light are not as those
  That animate a mother's reveries,
  But keep a marble or a bronze repose.

  William Butler Yeats

  Mother, Light, Worship

  "Among School Children" l. 49 (1928)

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• My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spent time at a convent and with an aunt and uncle who lived in New York and took me to the theater.

  Ellen Pompeo

  Mother, New York, Uncles

  "'Grey's Anatomy' star wishes she could gain weight. And kiss Angelina". Playboy Interview, featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com. December 07, 2006.

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• Marriage is the real vocation crisis in the United States... We have a vocation crisis to life-long, life-giving, loving, faithful marriage. If we take care of that one, we'll have all the priests and nuns we'll need for the Church.

  Timothy M. Dolan

  Real, Long, Giving

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• Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun.

  Nora Ephron

  Movie, Women, Years

  "Nora Ephron (1941-2012): An appreciation" by Ty Burr, www.boston.com. June 27, 2012.

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• Here in Florida the seasons move in and out like nuns in soft clothing, making no rustle in their passing.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Moving, Florida, Passing

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.217, Booklassic

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