Top 1200 Catholic School Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Children who were very truly pious in a Catholic childhood are apt to retain a nostalgia for the absolute.

I was baptised a Catholic and, although I'm not a churchgoer now, I do have a strong sense of the integrity of doing what you believe to be true.

I grew up in a big, blended Irish Catholic family just outside of Los Angeles.

I value my Catholic background very much. It taught me not to be afraid of rigorous thought, for one thing.

It is the strength of our culture that we can have Sonia Gandhi, who is Catholic, a Sikh prime minister, and a Muslim president.

I had a hard time going back to school after T2. I really didnt want to go to private school.

Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic - those are sort of three layers of repression.

I think the best part of being Catholic, strange as it might sound, is that I know it's right. It's true.

I'm a spiritual person. I'm not very religious. I was raised Catholic, but I am influenced a lot by Buddhism and Hinduism.

With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad.

I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.

When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.

I needed something deeper than the Catholic faith, and Buddha helps me control myself.

I was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audition for one play in high school - 'Auntie Mame.' I got a small part as the fiancee who comes on in the end. I got laughs. I wasn't shy at all doing the part. I can do anything on stage and write it off as a character.

The French-Cajun culture is similar to mine - they're Catholic, they play accordions, and they eat hot chiles.

I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.

My parents were extremely liberal. They didn't believe in being Catholic or Protestant, and that was a big deal at the time.

I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.

Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.

Peter Stanford is a writer on religious and ethical matters. He was for four years editor of the 'Catholic Herald.'

I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.

I was very quiet until I got at the piano, and weekends, lunch breaks, after school, before school, I was just making music.

It has always been my dream to open a school for the poor children in the city who drop out of school due to financial problems.

Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor.

I started making little short films with friends, and then I decided I wanted to get into the school play in high school.

I was a strange kid in that, while most kids hate school and want to turn 18 or 21, I loved high school.

The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.

I no longer represent any organized religion. I'm not Catholic. I'm not Christian. I'm saying this because I have to be an outsider for Christ.

What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.

I have been a goof my whole life. I wasn't really the popular girl in school and didn't have any boyfriends in high school because I was a nerd. I was a geek.

I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.

The idea of being a practicing Catholic, it's - for me, it's like - I need a lot of practice, you know what I mean?

We slit the Catholic throat, stoned the poor on such slogans as wish you could hear and love is all we need.

Making your dad happy is - especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I'll tell you - it feels really good.

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.

When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.

The Catholic Church is wealthier than Coca-Cola, but takes from some of the poorest people in the world.

Neither the true faith nor eternal salvation is to be found outside the Holy Catholic Church.

My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a weird mix.

Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic: Those are sort of three layers of repression.

Once I started the first school, I realized this is what my life is meant to be, is to promote education and help kids go to school and that's very clear.

I used to hate to go to school, because when it was Friday afternoon and everybody was finished school, I knew I was going to work Saturday and Sunday.

Every time I'd ever stepped on a basketball court, AAU, middle school, high school, I always thought about the NBA.

I finished school, because I started when I was thirteen, so basically around 16 or 17, I just focused on finishing high school.

I used to come to school with my school bag hanging on one shoulder and the cricket kit on the other. It was pretty cool and I felt special.

I used to drum on the table at school. I think a handful of my school reports say that they thought I might have some kind of ADD.

I was reared a Catholic but I think every day we ask ourselves, not consciously, what are we doing on this planet? What's it all about?

The things of Catholic life are never boring because we have such a rich tradition and so many stories to tell.

I was pretty lucky, I went to a really great school. I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.

I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.

And as you got older, the training became more developed and precise. We did plays, we had voice classes with great dialect coaches. But I was never into it on a school level; it was this kind of private little thing I did. At school I was a rugby guy. At school I was a rugby guy. I was causing trouble with my mates and skating and tagging buildings, and smoking bongs.

Though I have usually posed as a Catholic, I have not done my duty for 15 years, and have not the slightest tincture of faith left.

My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.

I was raised as a Catholic, but I got up to go to church because I thought I'd be hit by a bolt of lightning if I didn't.

I think my parents wanted me to do something very normal, have a normal person job and not be confronted by the instability of an artistic pursuit, but there wasn't really a lot they could do to stop me. I was, at one point, going to go to law school when I finished high school, but the next day I got accepted into acting school and there was no real question in my mind of what I was going to do.

I moved across the country when I was 16, so I left my high school and finished school online in order to pursue my acting more.

I myself am Catholic, and many Catholics have values that are a priority for Republicans, especially as they relate to marriage and life.

Maybe it will be difficult, but I want to finish school. My parents want me to finish school, and I am pretty sure I will. I will not go to university; I will turn professional when I finish school.

I describe myself as a "spiritual sampler," raised Catholic, been Baptist, Methodist, and a Unity member.

I was brought up a Catholic, so I suppose I have to believe in the goodness of human beings. I think we're not so bad after all.