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Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways. -- Christina, Queen of Sweden
A Nuns Life: Chastity, poverty, and obedience. Wait, chastity?" BUMPER STICKER -- Darynda Jones
Here's to the good Nuns for telling me what books NOT to read! -- Robert Anton Wilson
Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells. -- William Wordsworth
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
Nuns? They'd take one look at Barrons and decide the devil himself had come knockng. He not only looked dangerous, he emanated something that made even me feel like crossing myself sometimes, and I'm not religious. -- Karen Marie Moning
I loved nuns when I was growing up. I thought they were beautiful. For several years I wanted to be a nun. I saw them as really pure, disciplined, above average people. They had these serene faces. Nuns are sexy. -- Madonna Ciccone
Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. -- Fulton J. Sheen
I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel. -- John Lydon
I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean. -- Francis Ford Coppola
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
Even as a small child, I wondered why the Dominican nuns who educated me were subservient to the Jesuit priests who educated my brothers. -- Janine di Giovanni
A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called. -- Maria Monk
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
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
There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try to be funny to lighten the mood. -- Julie Brown
Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy. -- Bharati Mukherjee
I did 12 years with nuns, you know. So I came out of it going, like, 'I think Jesus is all right.' The rest of it I think stinks to the high heavens. -- Denis Leary
Philomena' was even better than I had expected. I was so pleased to see the evil Irish nuns thoroughly exposed, and I thought Judi Dench gave a flawless performance, as did everybody else. -- Claire Tomalin
I went to an all-girls' Christian convent school run by nuns. It was fun, but when I was 15, I said, 'Mum, that's it - I need to go where there are some boys.' -- Freida Pinto
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
Rush Limbaugh, we expect nonsense from him. But the Vatican, that's another story. When the Vatican is so threatened that it launches attacks on nuns, well, you know what they say in politics, a hit dog hollers. -- Jennifer Granholm
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
I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable. -- Frank McCourt
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
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
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
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
When I was 13, I entered the seminary in the hope of becoming a priest. But I often found myself helping the nuns in the kitchen and thus discovered my passion for cooking. I began to cultivate my skills and aspirations at the age of 15, when I embarked on my first apprenticeship. -- Joel Robuchon
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
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
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 we'd picked up on unvoiced opinions of our Loreto nuns. -- Bharati Mukherjee
And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz. -- Peter T. King
Commas, like nuns, often travel in pairs. -- Mary Norris
I kick kittens. I made rude gestures at nuns. -- Cassandra Clare
Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn -- Fulton J. Sheen
If nuns begin getting more empowered, where does that leave us? -- Tenzin Palmo
It's funny to hear priests and nuns argue with each other. -- Wendelin Van Draanen
I'm a detective, but nuns could stonewall Sam Spade into an asylum -- Dennis Lehane
When I'm drafting right to life language, I don't call up the nuns. -- Bart Stupak
I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict. -- Sofia Vergara
Women" he said in disgust. I wasn't sure whether we was referring to me or nuns. -- Janette Rallison
Ha! Easy for nuns to talk about giving up things. That's what they do for a living. -- Garrison Keillor
What nuns don't realize is that they look better in nun clothes than J.C. Penney pantsuits. -- Walker Percy
I was educated by the nuns. Guilt and discipline Â? combine those and you'll be pretty productive. -- Nora Roberts
There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around. -- Harvey Milk
The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I know what nuns are, kind of. It's just I never saw one. I didn't know they looked like penguins. -- Lesley Howarth
Here in Florida the seasons move in and out like nuns in soft clothing, making no rustle in their passing. -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Dog' is â??God' spelled backward; you know that. That's why you're here, to help the nuns do God's work. -- W. Bruce Cameron
I don't think that necessarily I was encouraged by the nuns and the priest to consider alternate possibilities to the universe. -- William Mapother
Almost everyone has or will experience getting dumped in their lifetime. Unless, of course, you're a nun. Jesus can't dump nuns. -- Jenny McCarthy
I grew up in a house without many books. The books the nuns made us read in school didn't interest me. -- John Dufresne
I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist. -- Paul Bettany
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
JFK used to say the bishops and the cardinals were all Republicans, but the nuns were Democrats! I sort of believe that too. -- Kitty Kelley
But when it comes to democratic political parties, I prefer that monks and nuns not join them - in order to ensure proper democratic practice. -- Dalai Lama
Going to Catholic school was what fueled me into comedy. The nuns were so brutal so I used to try to make my friends laugh. -- Downtown Julie Brown
I'm not sure you can lindy hop to 'We're All In This Together,' but I'm sure the nuns would welcome Zac Efron round for tea! -- Helen George
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
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
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
There is a basic problem that a lot of Western monks and nuns become ordained without really understanding or appreciating what the monastic life is all about. -- Tenzin Palmo
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
I was raised Irish Catholic and went to Holy Names Academy, an all-girl's private Catholic school. I loved the nuns there and I love them to this day. -- Kitty Kelley
Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to return the compliment. -- Desmond Morris
There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try to be funny to lighten the mood. -- Julie Brown
From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run by nuns. I was an anomaly. -- Thandie Newton
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
It is ironic that Mr. Berger learned of this espionage in exactly the same month that Mr. Gore was attending his now famous fund-raiser with Buddhist nuns in Southern California. -- Lamar Alexander
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
American Women: How they mortify the flesh in order to make it appetizing! Their beauty is a vast industry, their enduring allure a discipline which nuns or athletes might find excessive. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
I live for now, not for what happens after I die. I'm going to hell, not heaven. The devil has all the good gear. What's God got? The Inspiral Carpets and nuns. -- Liam Gallagher
I wanted to be a nun. I saw nuns as superstars. When I was growing up I went to a Catholic school, and the nuns, to me, were these superhuman, beautiful, fantastic people. -- Madonna Ciccone
We were kept at work, and permitted to speak with each other only on such subjects as related to the Convent, and all in the hearing of the old nuns who sat by us. -- Maria Monk
I doubt if we nuns are really as self-sacrificing as we must seem to be to you who live in the world. We don't give everything for nothing, you know. The mystery plays fair. -- Elizabeth Goudge
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
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
It would also have been helpful to have gone to a Catholic grammar school. The only people who know grammar are those people who went to Catholic grammar school. Those nuns beat it into them. -- Fran Lebowitz

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