#nuns

And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz. ↗

— Peter King

#auschwitz #away #bridges #building #community

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#because #bent #boots #bootstraps #down

...some of the best love poems have been written by monks and nuns... ↗

— John Geddes

#monks #nuns #poems #love

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

#catholic #catholic school #comedy #friends #fueled

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. ↗

— Julie Brown

#catholic #catholic school #dysfunction #family #funny

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

#around #ball #become #characters #close

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

— Sofia Vergara

#i #nuns #really #run #school

I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes. ↗

— Vera Wang

#clothes #eating #ever #fashion #generations

I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand, I pray; on the other hand, I don't believe. I am constantly between the two. ↗

— Anjelica Huston

#believe #between #constantly #couple #father

I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#as far as #certain #church #concerned #despicable