Top 1200 Catholic School Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.

We have been mentored from the very beginning by Catholic folks who are invigorating the best of the monastic spirit.

I went to Harvard High because it was a great school. That it happened to be a military school was just a part of it. I gained from the discipline there.

There has been this belief among the Catholic community - and this - I'm no expert, this is my opinion - that cafeteria Catholics are wrong.

Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.

In school, I was the quietest girl ever! I had a lot of trouble in school. Kids were mean to me.

The Catholic Church has a tough new policy on child molestors: three strikes and you're a cardinal.

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

I was brought up very Catholic, and the character of Tommy Gnosis got his name from there.

I would not describe myself as the best Catholic - I'm a bit of a cherry-picker. I like the community of it.

Now I'm a Catholic agnostic by the way. Yet those myths still live within me.

The heart and soul of school culture is what people believe, the assumptions they make about how school works.

I would describe myself as a practising Catholic. This is only my opinion; others may disagree.

I don't know if you've been in any inner-city schools, but it's pretty demoralizing. The kids come to class bright-eyed, enthusiastic - entering first grade really looking forward to school. By the fourth grade they're just completely turned off, and by the time they enter high school, they see little relationship between school and employment. It's bad enough you have incompetent teachers and schools that are poorly run, understaffed, and lack material resources. It's even worse when the kids themselves don't feel they have any stake in school.

The reason I say I'm a horrible person is I don't want myself to be presented as somebody who's a great Catholic.

As an atheist and lapsed Catholic, I feel the absence of faith in my own life quite acutely.

My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.

My Catholic faith is the foundation of my worldview, and my judicial duty is governed, from beginning to end, by the law.

I was in theater when I was in elementary, middle school and high school. I didn't know it would be an actual profession for me. I didn't think of it as a reality.

You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.

Truth is, I'm a good Catholic girl. The faith has always been elusive, but the guilt is intractable.

I was a very anxious kid. I was bullied at primary school and responded by making myself as anonymous as possible at secondary school.

Most of my friends surfed, so we would go before school, after school - literally, whenever we could.

I always thought that a prep school was what some people went to after high school to prepare themselves for college.

Children drop out of school because they're hungry. By providing a meal at school we have seen an increase in attendance.

I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set.

Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind.

I am a very spiritual person: I could say a Catholic with a strong underpinning of Zen.

There's a very small percentage of people that take limos to school and have $2000 handbags - no one in my high school had that!

We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.

I'm not very religious at all - I was raised Catholic, but probably haven't gone to church since my Holy Communion when I was about 6 or 7.

I think the strength of the Catholic church is that when it does finally identify a problem, it works to resolve it.

My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.

I'm really fortunate. I grew up in a wonderful household with great Irish Catholic parents.

For me the hardest struggle in my faith life was the Catholic Church is against the death penalty.

I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.

There were many reasons we broke up. There was a religious difference: I'm a Catholic, and she's the devil.

I myself am not religious, but yes, I certainly grew up in a very Catholic environment.

[My catholic education] sticked with me. It caused the rage I had to make 'Pink Flamingos.'

The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.

My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York.

I had a hard time going back to school after T2. I really didn't want to go to private school.

I grew up as a swimmer, speaking of sports; I spent a lot of time before school and after school swimming.

At seven years old, I won a scholarship to George Heriot's School, an independent school in Edinburgh, and I was there until I was 17.

In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses.

That's what really bothered me about high school: There was just no time to do anything other than school.

I've been Catholic all my life, and there's one thing I've never understood. Why didn't the Corinthians write back?

I'm just a good Catholic boy - I do naughty things and feel guilty about them.

I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.

Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training

I'd studied English literature and American history, but the English literature, which I thought was going to be helpful to me in an immediate way, was the opposite. So I had to un-think a lot of things and move out of my own head, and I learned a lot. It was like graduate school, but an un-graduate school or an un-school.

I was raised in a nominal Roman Catholic home, but without any really strong faith there.

People who are stuck in a Catholic church, that's OK for them because that's what they need right now.

I go to the Catholic Church. God is an important part of my life. If he was not, I don't think I could have survived.

I just remember having the President's Fitness Challenge when I was in elementary school and middle school. You had to do different activities, and at the end of it, I think you got a little pin or a badge. I was like, 'How do we incorporate Captain America into high school?' You would have the 'Captain America Fitness Challenge.'

Through high school, college, graduate school and beyond, I had a number of relationships that were wonderful.

I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know.

My fear of drama school is that the natural extraordinary but eccentric talent sometimes can't find its place in a drama school. And often that's the greatest talent. And it very much depends on the drama school and how it's run and the teachers. It's a different thing here in America as well because so many of your great actors go to class, which is sort of we don't do in England.

I'm not Catholic but the Virgin Mary fascinates me because she's like a folk hero.

The Catholic Church played an integral role in supporting the opening between the U.S. and Cuban governments.