Top 1200 Catholic School Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.

I was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and I moved to Anderson, Indiana, in 2003 to go to school. I finished high school in America, then I went to college.

In high school, I was selected for NASA's Math & Science program. I'd hop on the yellow school bus and head up to Cape Canaveral.

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.

My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.

Personally - I also continued my education while I was coaching, attending night school and summer school, taking correspondence courses, etc.

I was raised in the Catholic Church, and for me, the thought in the Bible and Christianity, and the spirit within that, is one of the guiding principles in my life.

I went to an ordinary primary school, and then I started performing in a show called 'Billy Elliot' on the West End, and that was sort of my drama school.

I think anarchy is natural to the Catholic. The Church is pretty anarchistic, you know. Who pays attention to the Pope or the Cardinals?

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

Why do we go through all the nonsense with security at our airport? It's not because the Catholic Church is falling apart.

By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.

The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.

My experiences growing up in both a Chinese American household and the Catholic Church define much of who I am.

I just pray. And 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 was Santa Claus in first year of primary school, our elementarys school play, because I had most panache, that was probably why. I was 5.

I like church. It's empty when I go. I walk around. There are so many beautiful Catholic churches in New York.

I like churches and Catholic symbolism, and although the art at the Vatican is overwhelming to see, I appreciated it even as an atheist.

I grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie.

When I was younger I was always big; I was a fat boy at school. I had an early growth spurt, and when I went to secondary school I was tall enough to be a policeman.

I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way.

Number one in high school, when I was sort of entrenched in the street life, if you will, the major thing that kept me plugged in the mainstream was athletics. I played basketball throughout high school. I also played football, but I played basketball throughout high school.

I get an awful lot of people coming up and saying they went to school with me. There must have been 80,000 pupils at that school!

I don't think college is for everyone. School is awesome, but for me, I was learning a lot more outside the classroom in the real world than I was in school.

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'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter. So if you get in my face, I'm going to fight you.

I got a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the Catholic University of America in D.C. and started working as an understudy at the Arena.

Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.

I started acting when I was young, and I didn't go to drama school. It was always something that I did alongside going to school and being a normal person.

The business changes, and we don't all have to like the change, but it's, ultimately, the business is changed. But, that being said, I don't like it, and I'll tell you why. Because without the new school that we have right now, or without old school, there would be none of this new school, so it started somewhere, right?

I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA .

Let us thank all those who teach in Catholic schools. Educating is an act of love; it is like giving life.

Providing jobs at three flat factories in Malawi to make school desks for kids who have never seen desks, and providing scholarships for girls to go to high school who would never otherwise be able to go to high school, is by far the most important work I do.

I was raised Catholic and didn't like the dogma and exclusivity of that teaching but I was moved by the moral teachings and by the power of the Jesus fellow.

The attitude of the Catholic Church towards homosexuality is well known - it is treated as something unnatural, even as a disease.

Our Catholic schools exist to help young people attain holiness in their lives, that is, to become saints.

The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese. That, in erotic terms, is the Catholic church, in a nutshell.

It's hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning for years.

You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.

I read a lot on the subject and had many conversations, and I have come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church is a force for evil.

I was a careless Protestant, my wife was a good Catholic, and we had six kids in seven years and I'd endorse that to everyone.

My high school was in the private school league, and we played all our games at the college stadium. It wasn't like we filled it, but we got a good crowd.

You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.

I went to high school every single day in an all-male Jesuit school at McQuaid with short hair, no beard, suit jacket, tie.

In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.

I'm not a practicing Catholic now. I didn't like what the church was doing with what Jesus had said, in a way. But I wouldn't say I'm not religious.

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

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.

I come from a Catholic Republican military family in Georgia - the antithesis of Sean's hippie-artist-peacenik background.

I spent my entire childhood in the same town, in Kent. I went to grade school there. There was a boarding school that my mother taught at, called - appropriately enough - Kent School, that I went to. Yeah, pretty much my entire childhood was spent in that town.

My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.

My mother brought us to the library every week, and I read a lot. That's what kept me company. I went from school to school, but there was always reading.

Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?

Elite private-school educations leave students unprepared for a standardized test with which their public school counterparts are innately familiar.

In point of fact I was a perfectly devoted and dutiful little Catholic—until the day I learned that animals have no souls.