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Even the nuns went racist after the convent was reappraised and it seemed their pension fund was in jeopardy. — George Saunders

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

There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

The nuns were still just one step behind her. — Anne Taintor

Pray stop your infernal whispering. You sound like a pack of nuns planning a murder. — Karen Hawkins

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

I'm a detective, but nuns could stonewall Sam Spade into an asylum — Dennis Lehane

I haven't got a gun you homicidal pillock! — Jonathan Lynn

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

To shape the soul of a young girl, all the nuns in the world are not equal to one mother. — Victor Hugo

I was raised Irish Catholic and went to Holy Names Academy, an all-girl's private Catholic school. I loved the nuns there and I love them to this day. — Kitty Kelley

Women he said in disgust. I wasn't sure whether we was referring to me or nuns. — Janette Rallison

Commas, like nuns, often travel in pairs. — Mary Norris

If monks and nuns do not cherish their time of practice, they will have nothing to offer the world. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Nuns freak me out. — P.C. Cast

Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways. — Christina, Queen Of Sweden

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. — Thandie Newton

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

When you're a Catholic kid, the nuns teach you that when something is annoying you, you "offer it up", as a sacrificial gift. — Rob Sheffield

Here's to the good nuns for telling me what books NOT to read! — Robert Anton Wilson

A Nuns Life: Chastity, poverty, and obedience. Wait, chastity? BUMPER STICKER — Darynda Jones

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. — Anna Quindlen

What could be more innocent? Biker Nuns from Hell, but besides that. — Laurell K. Hamilton

I was educated by the nuns. Guilt and discipline - combine those and you'll be pretty productive. — Nora Roberts

She was tall and dark-skinned and looked like a Nigerian sculpture. She moved like a lioness, her every step bristling with suppressed violence. — Bonnie Greer

I kick kittens. I made rude gestures at nuns. — Cassandra Clare

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

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! — Helen George

JFK used to say the bishops and the cardinals were all Republicans, but the nuns were Democrats! I sort of believe that too. — Kitty Kelley

I don't allow flying nuns in my convent," she said. "They tend to be frivolous, and during night flight, they're prone to crashing through windows. — Dean Koontz

At St. Bernardine's the nuns never liked me. Especially Sister Mary Bitch-and-a-Half. I think that was her biblical name. — Kathy Griffin

Strange, don't you think, that nuns and monks make the most sensual food and drink? — Megan Chance

I have just read a long novel by Henry James. Much of it made me think of the priest condemned for a long space to confess nuns. — W.B.Yeats

I always had a problem with original sin; I always had a problem with the exclusivity of the church and a lot of the things that the nuns taught me. — Susan Sarandon

I make rude gestures at nuns — Cassandra Clare

Ladies glisten, men perspire, horses sweat.

-Early Nun Quote, The Old Ursuline Convent (1727)
New Orleans, LA — Diana Hollingsworth Gessler

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. — John Waters

It's funny to hear priests and nuns argue with each other. — Wendelin Van Draanen

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

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. — Julie Brown

I'll bet the Catholic Church lost out on a lot of would-be nuns when they started dressing like ordinary meter maids. — Lucia Berlin

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

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

I did 12 years with nuns, you know. So I came out of it going, like, 'I think Jesus is all right.' The rest of it I think stinks to the high heavens. — Denis Leary

Some of the best love poems have been written by monks and nuns ... — John Geddes

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

Nothing supplies the place of this instinct. All the nuns in the world are not worth as much as one mother in the formation of a young girl's soul. — Victor Hugo

Dog' is 'God' spelled backward; you know that. That's why you're here, to help the nuns do God's work. — W. Bruce Cameron

Even as a small child, I wondered why the Dominican nuns who educated me were subservient to the Jesuit priests who educated my brothers. — Janine Di Giovanni

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. — Fulton J. Sheen

Our trees
were nuns at the edge of our plans, praying for us — Sue Goyette

Nuns go by as quiet as lust, and drunken men with sober eyes sing in the lobby of the Greek hotel. — Toni Morrison

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

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. — Maria Monk

I wasn't a class clown, because nuns have no sense of humor. They have rulers. — Dan Alatorre

I grew up in a house without many books. The books the nuns made us read in school didn't interest me. — John Dufresne

Stop thinking that nuns are sweet and kind like Maria in The Sound of Music. That's just a movie. Think of the evil old bruja in 'Hansel and Gretal. — Viola Canales

Moving the kids was not a good idea, but I sure wanted to see nuns in monster trucks plowing their way through a blizzard. — Dean Koontz

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

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

Yea! for our roses fade, the world is wild;
But there, beside the altar, there, is rest.
-from Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration — Ernest Dowson

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

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

Everybody knows that the soul of a cat is formed from the composite souls of nine debauched nuns who failed in their vows. — Barry Hughart

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

Girls need to know they can break the rules. If the nuns had told me that, I could have saved twenty years. — Gloria Steinem

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. — Meg Tilly

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. — George A. Romero