Top 1200 Catholic School Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.

I grew up Catholic, so I had a more traditional relationship with religion.

I really am at a place where I think we need to feed every child at school for free and feed them a real school lunch that's sustainable and nutritious and delicious. It needs to be part of the curriculum of the school in the same way that physical education was part of the curriculum, and all children participated.

I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.

I'm Jewish; I'm not religious at all, and I wouldn't pretend to know anything about Catholic politics.

To expose the hardships experienced by children who are deprived of the right to attend school, Camfed has produced a series of films about educational exclusion. 'Every Child Belongs in School' provides a glimpse into the lives of children who have been forced by poverty to leave school at a very young age and take a difficult life path.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.

Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.

My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.

Let me be clear: neither I nor 'Angels & Demons' are anti-Catholic.

As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.

I was still rooting for Notre Dame.It's like there's the cultural Catholic experience.

My father would chaperone at high-school dances, and the toughest guy in the high school used to want to fight my father. My father broke his hand on a guy's head once in school.

I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.

I don't think I related to the Irish Catholic surroundings that was my environment when I was growing up.

I didn't go to high school, so I don't have a high school experience. I was home-schooled during high school.

My mother grew up in abject poverty in Mississippi, an elementary school dropout. Yet, with the support of women around her, she returned to school and graduated as class valedictorian - the only one of her seven siblings to finish high school. She became a librarian and then a United Methodist minister.

Many trees have died so that the Catholic Church can preach against homosexuality.

I've played rugby at school a bit. I didn't play football at school; I played football after school.

Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?

You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.

I never agreed with the message of the Catholic Church - and still don't to this day.

The exorcisms I performed and conducted mainly focus on the Catholic ways.

I'm a traditionalist. I'm a Latin mass Catholic, and I hold to traditional views of responsibility.

But, once again, when I said I'm so grateful for my mom just being adamant about me staying in public school - that is what allowed me to be exposed to so many different types of people. I went to a high school that was by the beach. I elected to do bussing my junior high school years. And my first year of high school, I would take the bus from my neighborhood to the beach schools. And at those schools, you had such a mix of so many types of kids.

I never went to school for that. In high school we had photography, which was great. That was another moment of discovery. I had a great teacher - I can't even remember her name now. I ended up going to boarding school for my last high school years and they had a dark room there. Of course there was curfew; you were supposed to be in bed at a certain time. But I would sneak out and sneak into the dark room and work all night.

Most people are nostalgic in a way that they're fond of the past, but they still are happy that they are where they are now. You know, when you say, 'Oh, high school was this or that,' you don't want to go back. No matter how much you loved high school, you don't want to actually be back in high school. I certainly wouldn't.

My earliest thought, long before I was in high school, was just to go away, get out of my house, get out of my city. I went to Medford High School, but even in grade school and junior high, I fantasized about leaving.

I did not understand the differences between Catholic and Protestant until I was an adult.

I grew up in a very Catholic household. We were pretty conservative.

You know you're in a bad movie when the Catholic clergy is being played by Jews.

You cannot expect a foreign country to be more Catholic than the pope for you.

My dear dad always tried to introduce me to children of his friends, but I just never took to them. Those were the people we were shoved with at school dances, usually Eton boys because it was the cleverest boys' school, and ours was supposed to be the cleverest girls' school.

People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.

The Catholic Church's teachings are authoritative. There is a moral absolute on abortion - that it is wrong.

My mom's Jewish and my dad's Irish Catholic alcoholic, so I whine on the inside.

You give Italy Jesus Christ and you get the Roman Catholic Church.

The most important steps that I followed were studying math and science in school. I was always interested in physics and astronomy and chemistry and I continued to study those subjects through high school and college on into graduate school. That's what prepared me for being an astronaut; it actually gave me the qualifications to be selected to be an astronaut.

I was in school, but I wasn't into school. I wasn't doing what I wanted to be doing in school, which was film studies. That was what I intended on doing, but I didn't go away to a university because I wanted to stay in L.A. and audition while I took classes, so I elected to go to a community college and just take G.E. courses. It was terrible.

Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game.

I'm Catholic now, I'm Christian, watch out for them Devils.

I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.

I feel like a fox in a henhouse full of Catholic girls.

I have a great affiliation with the Catholic community having studied at convent schools.

We want a faithful Catholic businessman not to have to provide a service he finds unethical.

The people who are behind the curve of the Catholic future are the institutional-maintenance types.

It was important to my father that I go to Hebrew school three days a week for two or three hours each time. To me, it felt endless. Think about it from a kid's perspective: I would finish my normal school day, then get on a bus and go to another school. That was tough to take.

I was raised Catholic at a time when Vatican II was just taking hold.

The Catholic Church did not always teach that life begins at conception.

I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.

The Catholic theatrics are pretty high quality, but the Protestants have better hymns.

I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.

I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.

I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the opportunity to go to Britain's Central School of Speech and Drama, and my dad and I had a few tense words about that. He wanted me to go to British drama school.

I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.

I'm a Christian. I was born and raised a Catholic. But I think there are people that are frauds that are ministers.

I was brought up a very strict Catholic and I don't practice anymore or anything.