Nun Quotes - Page 8

• I'd go down in history for being the most revealing nun ever!

  Foxy Brown

  Revealing

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• Dog’ is ‘God’ spelled backward; you know that. That’s why you’re here, to help the nuns do God’s work.

  W. Bruce Cameron

  Dog, Helping, Knows

  W. Bruce Cameron (2012). “A Dog's Journey: A Novel”, p.316, Macmillan

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• All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people.

  Edna O'Brien

  Self, Cells, People

  Edna O'Brien (1978). “Seven novels and other short stories”, HarperCollins

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• It was a bad one, the Winter of 1933. Wading home that night through flames of snow, my toes burning, my ears on fire, the snow swirling around me like a flock of angry nuns, I stopped dead in my tracks. The time had come to take stock. Fair weather or foul, certain forces in the world were at work trying to destroy me.

  John Fante

  Home, Winter, Night

  John Fante (2013). “1933 Was A Bad Year”, p.1, Canongate Books

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• For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.

  George A. Romero

  School, Kids, Guy

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• Here's to the good Nuns for telling me what books NOT to read!

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Book

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• The reason some crime writers have a chip on their shoulder about the label is because their good books are shelved beside books about nuns and birdwatchers and cats who solve crimes. Overseas, my books are reviewed alongside those of authors like Robert Stone and Don DeLillo, and I have to live and die by that comparison. They don't ghettoize crime writers in other countries, and of course they shouldn't.

  George Pelecanos

  Country, Book, Cat

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

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• I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn.

  Meg Tilly

  Friends, Character, Yarn

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I hope that Beyond the Robe helps you to feel closer to the monks and nuns and to better understand their immense potential to provide leadership in their world and further insight into ours. Instead of simply admiring them from afar, let's all get close enough to really listen.

  Bobby Sager

  World, Afar, Helping

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• It’s funny to hear priests and nuns argue with each other.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Arguing, Priests

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Runaway”, p.234, Laurel Leaf

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• Alec drew his hand back with a low whistle. "The Inquisitor meant business." "Of course she did. I'm a dangerous criminal. Or hadn't you heard?" Jace heard the acid in his own tone, saw Alec flinch, and was meanly, momentarily, glad. "She didn't call you a criminal, exactly..." "No, I'm just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nun

  Cassandra Clare

  Boys, Naughty, Hands

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.700, Simon and Schuster

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• The rabbis paled. I’d managed to terrify holy men. Maybe I could beat up a nun for an encore.

  Ilona Andrews

  Men, Holy, Beats

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.170, Penguin

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• I kick kittens. I made rude gestures at nuns.

  Cassandra Clare

  Rude, Gestures, Kitten

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• I could become a nun even if I am a non-believer. I'll learn to fake it like Nick did with me. I will minister the gospel of compassion and kindness and please, always use a condom, from famine-stricken nations to war-torn dead zones. It's possible I might become a nun who kisses other nuns.

  Rachel Cohn

  Kindness, War, Kissing

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• I liked reading about the nun who ate so dainty with her fingers she never dripped any grease on herself. I've never been able to make that claim and I use a fork.

  Helene Hanff

  Reading, Grease, Use

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• The people who visit the [Lincoln] memorial always look like an advertisement for democracy, so bizarrely, suspiciously diverse that one time I actually saw a man in a cowboy hat standing there reading the Gettysburg Address next to a Hasidic Jew. I wouldn’t have been surprised if they had linked arms with a woman in a burka and a Masai warrior, to belt out ‘It’s a Small World After All,’ flanked by a chorus line of nuns and field-tripping, rainbow-skinned schoolchildren

  Sarah Vowell

  Reading, Warrior, Men

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• For me, 'Lamb' started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in 'Coyote Blue' and 'Island of the Sequined Love Nun,' but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship.

  Christopher Moore

  Loyalty, Responsibility, Sacrifice

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• A very special case. A few years more, and that pretty creature who you love too much, I think, will, without ever loving them, have known as many men as there are beads on her aunt's rosary. No happy medium! Either a nun or a monster! God's bosom or sensual passions! It would, perhaps, be better to put her in a convent, since we put hysterical women in the Saltpetriere! She does not know vice, she invents it!" That was ten years ago before the day our story begins and... Raoule was not a nun.

  Rachilde

  Passion, Aunt, Men

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• No, I'm just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nuns.

  Cassandra Clare

  Boys, Naughty, Rude

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.701, Simon and Schuster

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• Not wanting anyone to pop my bubble by speaking to me, I immediately began reading Lesbian Nuns, and that did the trick. No one attempted small talk.

  John Waters

  Reading, Pops, Tricks

  John Waters (2007). “Crackpot: The Obsessions of”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• St Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than to marry. She wanted to be a nun. She hoped I would be a priest and saved to give me an education while my friends plaited rope and trailed after the plough. I can't be a priest because although my heart is as loud as hers I can pretend no answering riot. I have shouted to God and the Virgin, but they have not shouted back and I'm not interested in the still small voice. Surely a god can meet passion with passion? She says he can. Then he should.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Mother, Passion, Heart

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.9, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It was an odd relationship, but then she was an extraordinary woman: a prioress who doubted much of what the church taught; an acclaimed healer who rejected medicine as practised by physicians; and a nun who made enthusiastic love to her man whenever she could get away with it. If I wanted a normal relationship, Merthin told himself, I should have picked a normal girl.

  Ken Follett

  Girl, Men, Should Have

  Ken Follett (2011). “Ken Follett EPIC HISTORICAL COLLECTION”, p.2780, Penguin

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• A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.)

  Markus Zusak

  Ideas, Halos, Way

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.75, RH Childrens Books

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• The designers, photographers and models I work with, they are really hard-working people who are devoting their lives to fashion. They're kind of like nuns of fashion.

  Alber Elbaz

  Fashion, Hard Work, People

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• In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Boys, Garbage Cans, Desks

  "Bruce Springsteen: 'Talking'". Book edited by John W. Duffy, 2004.

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