#nun

Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#discrimination #love #naturally #renunciation #through

When I was 13, I entered the seminary in the hope of becoming a priest. But I often found myself helping the nuns in the kitchen and thus discovered my passion for cooking. I began to cultivate my skills and aspirations at the age of 15, when I embarked on my first apprenticeship. ↗

— Joel Robuchon

#apprenticeship #aspirations #becoming #began #cooking

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

#catholic #classmates #funny #funny guy #guy

One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#around #banner #classroom #discovered #earliest

I truly believe that God brought this, Dorothy Day script to me, because for a long time up until I was in eight grade - I wanted to be a nun. ↗

— Moira Kelly

#believe #brought #day #dorothy #dorothy day

I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't inundated with culture the way people in other parts of the country were. But I was really interested in it. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#country #culture #farm #grew #i

The oath of renunciation and allegiance is a solemn vow taken by thousands of immigrants each year to become a United States citizen. The oath is the fundamental statement of allegiance to the United States, and this allegiance is what unites America. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#america #become #citizen #each #fundamental

I work best inundated with things, when it's like raining information. ↗

— Ryan Seacrest

#i #information #inundated #like #raining

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

— Fulton J. Sheen

#confessions #death #hearing #like #nuns

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#end #marriage #protection #religion #renunciation