Top 1200 Catholic School Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.

You've used up all your school sick days," he said, persuing my file. "You've requested to leave school one hundred and thirty days out of the one hudred and forty days of school so far." So thirty-one might be the magic number?" Principal Reed and Raven

I think the big challenge that we've got on education is making sure that from kindergarten or prekindergarten through your 14th or 15th year of school, or 16th year of school, or 20th year of school, that you are actually learning the kinds of skills that make you competitive and productive in a modern, technological economy.

If you were Catholic, you'd singe the ears of the priest you confessed to.

I was allergic to school. I was completely befuddled by school. I was trying so hard, but I couldn't succeed. I took geometry for four years, the same course over and over again, and I did not graduate with my senior class. I finally passed geometry after doing summer school, and eventually, I graduated.

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

I was raised Catholic in the Midwest, so I cant enjoy anything.

I had the benefit of going to a really good high school on Long Island. I went to Shoreham-Wading River High School, which kind of started as an experimental public school back in the 60s and 70s. It had a bunch of teachers there with a unique teaching philosophy.

My hobby is extreme Catholic behavior - before the Reformation.

That's not to say that I'm a well-informed Catholic. I'm still in idiot.

I'm a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.

I absolutely cannot see how one can later make up for having failed to go to a good school at the proper time. For this is what distinguishes the hard school as a good school from all others: that much is demanded; and sternly demanded; that the good, even the exceptional, is demanded as the norm; that praise is rare, that indulgence is nonexistent; that blame is apportioned sharply, objectively, without regard for talent or antecedents. What does one learn in a hard school? Obeying and commanding.

I grew up in a dictatorship in a very Catholic country.

I was raised Catholic... I fell in love with certain ideals.

I always say I'm Catholic in my complications and Buddhist in my aspirations.

I was 16 when my father died, and I had a choice to come back and live in his house or I'd stay at the school. But I felt if my father wanted me to go to that school when I was 5, there must have been a reason - and I understood that reason when I was a teenager, because that school became the only place where I was safe.

I would say I'm - in the show, I'm a cultural Catholic, which is what I was.

I grew up very Catholic. I wanted to be a priest.

I am a reformed Catholic. I'm a Buddhist in other words.

I think I'm always subconsciously trying to write the ideal school play. Lots of parts for everybody, great parts for women - don't forget, more girls try out than boys in the school play; everyone gets to be in the school play.

My mother has an incredible rigidity, which is very Catholic.

I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.

When my father left us, my mother went back to school immediately. She went to school in the day while we were at school, and she worked at night. She worked very hard to never let someone define her as a victim or a failure.

There's nothing sexier than a lapsed Catholic.

I may not be Hispanic, but I'm close. I'm Catholic with a mustache[]

It's troubling for me as a Catholic to be at odds with the church.

Catholic, which I was until I reached the age of reason

You don't go to school to become the best chef in the world right after you graduate. School is always a starting point so what people forget is that you go to school to build a foundation, and you want to build a foundation that's not going to crumble.

I went to a state school in south-west London. It was a brilliant school for the students that really wanted to learn. But it was not a great school for the students that - in my opinion - didn't want to learn, i.e. me. I really wasn't interested by it.

You should invest like a Catholic marries: for life.

As a senior in high school with no money working several jobs, I was sent to a wonderful school on the East Coast by a wonderful Jewish man. I've never forgotten that. I've sent over 5,000 young people to school around the world in memory of him because he was so gracious to me.

I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.

Being a Catholic is the most important aspect of my life.

If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish

I was raised Catholic. I didn't appreciate the guilt and sin part of it.

I like both antireligious and traditional Catholic imagery.

Faced with the election of a Catholic, our culture is at stake.

I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

Very less to say, I can make one Catholic or Protestant.

No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.

It is easier to live as a Protestant, but better to die as a Catholic.

My home base - pop music and the Catholic Church.

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.

I am Jewish, Italian, American, Catholic.

I take the teachings of the Catholic Church seriously.

I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.

Photons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic.

The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.

My dream school was USC. So I was like, alright, I'm going to apply to USC, and If I don't get in - I'm dropping out of school, and I'm pursuing music. So I applied, and I got in. I was like alright, I'm at the number one communications school in the country, and that was my major.

I think I have serious latent Catholic guilt issues.

Is the Pope Catholic. No I'm serious. I really need to know.

When you think about the Catholic Church, it is a bit flamboyant, in't it?

I don't think you can be a Catholic without an accompanying measure of guilt.

What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College.

I was raised Catholic, but the devil was never with a pitchfork.

I got into medical school at the University of California in San Francisco and did well. A lot of smart kids in medical school, and believe me, I wasn't not nearly the smartest one, but I was the most focused and the happiest kid in medical school. In 1979, I graduated as the valedictorian and was honored with the Gold Cane Award.

I was brought up as a Catholic. I've got A-level guilt.

I was, throughout school, in the theater program. Through elementary school, junior high, high school, and then J.J. Abrams, my closest friend in the world, we were living together. He was writing, and I was trying writing; I wasnt getting paid for it like he was, but I always had the acting bug.

I was pretty Irish Catholic Jersey, the middle of the line.