Top 132 Nun Quotes & Sayings

A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them.

I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness

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.

It grieves me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car.

In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist.

I’ve been a nun. A Catholic nun.

What nuns don't realize is that they look better in nun clothes than J.C. Penney pantsuits.

I was by no means a nun.

Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.

In high school I was voted the girl most likely to become a nun. That may not be impressive to you, but it was quite an accomplishment at the Hebrew Academy.

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

I left the convent and that was because I wasn't a very good nun. I could see that I wasn't going to make it. It's very difficult to be a nun, or to live a religious life. It's very difficult to live a life of total celibacy or a life without any possessions or material responsibilities at all, or in total obedience to somebody else, and remain a mature whole human being, and I knew that I wasn't going to be one of those.

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

I truly believe that God brought this, Dorothy Day script to me, because for a long time up until I was in eight grade - I wanted to be a nun.

I also was deeply touched by 'The Nun's Story' because it was the first time I saw my mother in something other than a romantic comedy.

You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?

Mother Teresa, the nun who in the last century dedicated her long life to helping the poor, is now a saint.

I just knew it would get a big laugh when people saw the 'Flying Nun' throwing the bird to a highway patrolman.

Catholic media sucks. It's boring. It's for old people. It's not interesting. It's like you're in a class with an 80 year old nun.

I'd have made a terrible nun.

At the age of 21 I was so sensible and became a nun. I am very grateful to myself for that.

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

I can give you a spirit love, I have given you this long, long time; but not embodied passion. See, you are a nun. I have given you what I would give a holy nun...In all our relations no body enters. I do not talk to you through the senses - rather through the spirit. That is why we cannot love in the common sense.

Oh you know me. I have no emotions. I'm a robot. Or a nun. A robot nun.

You know who you are. If my mother is a nun and someone comes up to me and they go, 'Your mother is a prostitute.' It is not going to bother me, because I know my mother is a nun, she's not a prostitute.

I don't have a life, I really don't. I'm as close to a nun as you can be without the little hat. I'm a golf nun.

Back when I was 8 or 9 and wanted to be a nun, I would often stop at church on my way home from school.

The Bagshaws? They didn't know she was a nun!

I'm an assassin on the court. And at home, I'm a nun.

I don't think people will ever forget I was an 'Angel,' anymore than they'll forget Sally Field was 'The Flying Nun.'

I'll be a nun, raise my daughter, and make albums.

... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.

As a child I wanted to be a ballerina, ice-cream van owner, wife of George Michael, a nun, and a music conductor.

Listen, if you're not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.

I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness.

I don't think people will ever forget I was an 'Angel', anymore than they'll forget Sally Field was 'The Flying Nun.'

I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me.

Nigerian nun Bernadette Duru says the African church hierarchy is indifferent to people in rural areas.

One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil intent.

I don't speak during the day. I warm up physically and, obviously, vocally, constantly. And I try to live like a nun.

The first time I wore a head scarf, I was 16. I looked and felt like a nun. I missed the wind in my hair. For me, it was not a comfortable thing to wear.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not ashamed of my body, I just don't see any reason to not cover it up as much as possible. ... I'm someone who considered becoming a nun, for the outfit.

If a Hindu wants to find the way to God, he has the right to go to any priest, nun or any other person.

When I was a little girl, I used to walk around with a towel on my head, pretending I was a nun. And then one day my mother said, 'Why don't you just become an actress, and then you can pretend you're a nun.'

I have a spaniel that defrocked a nun last week. He took hold of the cord. I had hold of the leash. It was like elephants holding tails. Imagine me undressing a nun, even second hand.

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.

I would love to play a nun. I used to want to be one when I was a kid.

Almost everyone has or will experience getting dumped in their lifetime. Unless, of course, you're a nun. Jesus can't dump nuns.

My mother was an ex-nun, and my father was a Franciscan brother, so I grew up believing in Jesus the way anyone would believe in Mom's first husband.

What news? There's nothing to tell. I'm a nun.

If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often. It’s a mysterious condition. It’s much like the life of a Catholic nun. You’re married to a mystery.

Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.

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

It's always a good idea to have a nun next to you when you get arrested!

I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for very few people.

For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. And I've always been fascinated with nuns, and I have a nun collection, I've been collecting nuns for 20 years. And I have a song that I wrote, 'I Wanna Be a Nun,' when I was 25.

Patches are a nun's jewels.

People wanted me to be like the Madonna, the white nun, you know, and that's not me. But I'm no villain.

The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration.

I attended speech and drama classes with a nun to help me gain confidence in speaking without my face turning red each time.