22 Nuns Quotes for You to Enjoy

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 Somebody Few Down Nuns Our Solely Bent Ourselves Boots Bootstraps Parent Pick League Because None Got Up Ivy Ivy League Where Us Helped Here Pulling

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. Fulton J. Sheen

Death Nuns Like Hearing Confessions Being Popcorn

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive. Dalai Lama

Compassion Christian Meditation Nuns Ability Adopt Develop Buddhism Buddhist Devotion Course Methods Forgive Order Anyone Use Who Techniques Monks

I went to Catholic school and experienced racism firsthand from nuns and priests. Anthea Butler

Racism School Nuns Priests Catholic Catholic School Firsthand Experienced

I was a class clown; the nuns didn't like that. Bobby Cannavale

Class Clown Nuns Class Clown Like

Monica Besra, a Bengali woman from a remote Indian village, was reportedly suffering from a malignant ovarian tumor when she went, in 1998, to a hospice founded by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity. Nuns at the mission reportedly placed a medallion with Teresa's image on Besra's abdomen, and the tumor disappeared. Charles Duhigg

Woman Suffering Charity Mother Nuns Bengali Indian Disappeared Remote Mission Missionaries She Tumor Placed Village Founded Monica Image

In my youngest days, the nuns at my grammar school drummed into us that we were in this world to make it a better place - not just for ourselves, but for other people, too. So from the very beginning, I've been driven by this idea that we have to make a difference, and it's one of the reasons I went into law in the first place. Cherie Blair

People World Law Better School First Beginning Too Other Nuns Ourselves Better Place Driven Idea Days Make Make A Difference First Place Were Been Very Just Difference Grammar Grammar School Place Us Youngest Reasons

I remember one time when all the nuns in my Catholic grade school got around in a semicircle, me and Mom in the middle, and they said, 'Mrs. Farley, the children at school are laughing at Christopher, not with him.' I thought, 'Who cares? As long as they're laughing.' Chris Farley

Time Mom Me Remember School Thought Long Christopher Nuns Cares Laughing One Time Him Catholic Around Said Got Grade Grade School Middle Children Who Who Cares

One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing. Dave Van Ronk

Memories Old Three Nuns Seven Classroom Knew Around Years Discovered Verses Eight Banner Spangled Sent Full Whole Star Actually Thing Earliest Earliest Memories Phenomenon

Good priests never look for awards and, perversely enough in the clerical culture universe, do not receive many. Like the aged nuns who taught selflessly and nearly anonymously all their lives, these servants of the People of God only get into the papers when their obituaries are printed. Eugene Kennedy

God Good Culture People Universe Enough Nuns Papers Obituaries Only Never Priests Like Look Clerical Anonymously Printed Get Taught Aged Who Many Awards Lives Servants Nearly Receive

I was brought up with old-fashioned values. I wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend until I finished school. I wasn't allowed to wear make-up: the nuns would scrub your face if they saw it. Imelda May

School Values Face Finished Nuns Saw Would Wear Brought Allowed Until Boyfriend Up Scrub Your Old-Fashioned

My well-meaning parents decided to send me to a Catholic grade school to get a better education than I probably would have received at the local public school. They had no way of knowing that the school nuns, who were the majority of the teachers at this particular parochial school, were right-wing, card-carrying John Birch Society members. Jim Starlin

Education Me Better School Parents Society Birch Nuns Local Way Right-Wing Members Would John Parochial Had Particular Knowing Majority Catholic Well-Meaning Were Than Get Grade Grade School Send Decided Public Teachers Who Public School Received

I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn. After a while, all my characters become very close friends. Meg Tilly

Problem Become Nuns Characters Follow Kitten Like Around Ball Yarn Still Friends Very Close Close Friends After While Them

I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict. Sofia Vergara

School Strict Nuns Run Catholic Were Really

Priests and nuns actually meditated. It's not religious. It's about centering yourself. Tony Cardenas

Yourself Nuns Religious About Priests Actually

I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes. Vera Wang

Life Fashion Thought Rest Girl My Life Clothes Living Nun Nuns Those Married Would Eating Generations Nobody Get Get Married Going Them Breathing Who Ever

I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff. Zosia Mamet

School Try Strict Made Girl Hair Other Nuns Out Would Dip Pretty Volleyball Weird Stuff Academic Liked Read Sure Were Wanted Place Uniforms Act Elementary Elementary School Ink

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