Top 155 Nuns Quotes & Sayings

I remember the nuns used to swear quite a lot, so I think maybe it's picking it up from them.

Priests and nuns actually meditated. It's not religious. It's about centering yourself.

When I'm drafting right to life language, I don't call up the nuns.

I don't think that necessarily I was encouraged by the nuns and the priest to consider alternate possibilities to the universe.

I was the black atheist kid in the all-white Catholic school run by nuns.

I loved nuns when I was growing up. I thought they were beautiful. For several years I wanted to be a nun. I saw them as really pure, disciplined, above average people. They had these serene faces. Nuns are sexy.

I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn.

It’s funny to hear priests and nuns argue with each other.

We were kept at work, and permitted to speak with each other only on such subjects as related to the Convent, and all in the hearing of the old nuns who sat by us.

There is a basic problem that a lot of Western monks and nuns become ordained without really understanding or appreciating what the monastic life is all about.

For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.

I kick kittens. I made rude gestures at nuns.

From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run by nuns. I was an anomaly.

I know what nuns are, kind of. It's just I never saw one. I didn't know they looked like penguins.

I live for now, not for what happens after I die. I'm going to hell, not heaven. The devil has all the good gear. What's God got? The Inspiral Carpets and nuns.

Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells.

Almost everyone has or will experience getting dumped in their lifetime. Unless, of course, you're a nun. Jesus can't dump nuns.

I grew up in a very white, privileged, old-fashioned society in South Africa and went to a boarding school run by nuns.

I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn. After a while, all my characters become very close friends.

I went to Catholic school and experienced racism firsthand from nuns and priests.

It's an oversimplication to say that more monks and nuns are the answer to the Joel Osteen-ification of Christianity... but it wouldn't hurt.

But when it comes to democratic political parties, I prefer that monks and nuns not join them - in order to ensure proper democratic practice.

Here's to the good Nuns for telling me what books NOT to read!

The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel path between manicured lawns. She would have in tow one or two slower-footed, sari-clad young Indian nuns. We thought her a freak. Probably wed picked up on unvoiced opinions of our Loreto nuns.

Commas, like nuns, often travel in pairs.

I wanted to be a nun. I saw nuns as superstars. When I was growing up I went to a Catholic school, and the nuns, to me, were these superhuman, beautiful, fantastic people.

A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called.

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

"Women," he said in disgust. I wasn't sure whether we was referring to me or nuns.

It's interesting that in those countries like Taiwan or Korea, where nuns are given equal opportunities for study and practice, they also develop great social awareness.

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

I was educated by the nuns. Guilt and discipline ? combine those and you'll be pretty productive.

Going to Catholic school was what fueled me into comedy. The nuns were so brutal so I used to try to make my friends laugh.

I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist.

There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.

On social welfare the Church does so much good around the world - nuns running schools and homeless shelters, priests ministering to people who are in crisis.

Here in Florida the seasons move in and out like nuns in soft clothing, making no rustle in their passing.

If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around.

I doubt if we nuns are really as self-sacrificing as we must seem to be to you who live in the world. We don't give everything for nothing, you know. The mystery plays fair.

There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try to be funny to lighten the mood.

The new nuns don't know that they're 'supposed' to be meek and submissive, and so in many ways they believe they can do anything, because they've seen the earlier ones do it. In this way, there's nothing for them to doubt.

I'm not sure you can lindy hop to 'We're All In This Together,' but I'm sure the nuns would welcome Zac Efron round for tea!

Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to return the compliment.

For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. And I've always been fascinated with nuns, and I have a nun collection, I've been collecting nuns for 20 years. And I have a song that I wrote, 'I Wanna Be a Nun,' when I was 25.

The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel path between manicured lawns. She would have in tow one or two slower-footed, sari-clad young Indian nuns. We thought her a freak. Probably we'd picked up on unvoiced opinions of our Loreto nuns.

I was a class clown; the nuns didn't like that.

What nuns don't realize is that they look better in nun clothes than J.C. Penney pantsuits.

I went to an all-girls' Christian convent school run by nuns. It was fun, but when I was 15, I said, 'Mum, that's it - I need to go where there are some boys.'

A Nuns Life: Chastity, poverty, and obedience. Wait, chastity?" BUMPER STICKER

Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways.

I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.

No, I'm just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nuns.

The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.

Ha! Easy for nuns to talk about giving up things. That's what they do for a living.

If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy.

I don't think the government (of El Salvador) was responsible. The nuns were not just nuns; the nuns were political activists. We ought to be a little more clear-cut about this than we usually are. They were political activists on behalf of the Frente and somebody who is using violence to oppose the Frente killed them.

I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict.

Dog’ is ‘God’ spelled backward; you know that. That’s why you’re here, to help the nuns do God’s work.

If nuns begin getting more empowered, where does that leave us?

Not wanting anyone to pop my bubble by speaking to me, I immediately began reading Lesbian Nuns, and that did the trick. No one attempted small talk.