Nun Quotes - Page 5

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

  Tenzin Palmo

  Doe, Empowered, Ifs

  Source: fpmt.org

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It is ironic that Samuel Berger learned of this espionage in exactly the same month that Al Gore was attending his now famous fund-raiser with Buddhist nuns in Southern California.

  Lamar Alexander

  Buddhist, California, Southern

  "Republicans hammer Gore over U.S. policy toward China" by Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. March 10, 1999.

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• Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Religion, Faces

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.21

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• The Buddha also counseled the monks and nuns to avoid wasting any precious time by engaging in idle conversation, oversleeping, pursuing fame and recognition, chasing after desires, spending time with people of poor character, and being satisfied with only a shallow understanding of the teaching.

  Nhat Hanh

  Teaching, Character, People

  "Old Path White Clouds". Book by Thich Nhat Hanh, 1987.

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• We always think of saints as these monks or nuns or popes or priests from centuries ago who were celibate or lived very quiet lives. Maybe we don't know a lot about a lot them but what I'm saying is the saints of the 21st century are gonna be regular people - people who've kissed other people. They're gonna be married people.

  Lino Rulli

  Thinking, People, Saint

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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