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Quotes About Nun

A friend sat next to a nun on a plane. He asked her what she missed most. "Wearing blue jeans," she replied.
~ Amy Krouse Rosenthal
I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.
~ Andrew Greeley
Well, good. Excellent. There'll be plenty of time for boys when you leave college and become a nun.
~ Derek Landy
Nous vîmes sortir du monastère une nonne. Elle portait sur l'épaule gauche une planche étroite et longue, la toaca, et dans sa main droite un maillet. Pour appeler au culte, elle fit le tour de l'église, en frappant avec le maillet sur la planche, tantôt au centre, tantôt vers les extrémités, de manière à produire des notes plus graves ou plus claires, et à moduler un véritable chant.
~ Dominique Fernandez
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
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
THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO I am a poor idealist. I am a victim of illusions. He laughed.
~ Ernest Hemingway
THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO Tonight, sent by the police, they come to serenade me.He laughed, then tapped his stomach.-I cannot laugh yet. As musicians they are fatal
~ Ernest Hemingway
The round-faced nun turned her twinkling eyes to Silas and said in a soft lilting voice, "He's quite a lad, your boy, isn't he? He knows what he wants, and isn't afraid of going out to get it.
~ Angie Sage
From now on, consider me your resident nun." My boss smiled. "I don't usually see nuns wearing shorts that tiny." I rolled my eyes. "Okay, so I'm a slutty nun who needs the tips. God understands. You gotta dress for success in this world.
~ Joanna Wylde
Cordelia: I hope I've got a vocation. Charles: I don't know what that means. Cordelia: It means you can be a nun. If you haven't a vocation it's no good however much you want to be; and if you have a vocation, you can't get away from it, however much you hate it.
~ Evelyn Waugh
My sister Cordelia's last report said that she was not only the worst girl in the school, but the worst there had ever been in the memory of the oldest nun.
~ Evelyn Waugh
I'd have made a terrible nun.
~ Heather Graham
Everybody has fishes in their stomach so does Jiko. But the biggest fish of all belonged to Haruki#1 and it was more like a whale. After she has become a nun, she learned how to open up her heart so that the whale could swim away.
~ Ruth Ozeki
our mother recalled it. But the nun's language in these matters—matters of the body, of the flesh, what went on between women and men—
~ Alice McDermott
All joy was thin ice to Sister Lucy.
~ Alice McDermott
I'd the upbringing a nun would envy and that's the truth. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.
~ Joe Orton
the seventeenth-century saint, Margaret Marie Alacoque, a French nun of Parayle-Monial, who founded the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Margaret would deliberately eat cheese knowing that it made her vomit, and by her own admission she ate the vomit of sister nuns.
~ John Cornwell
What?" He was frowning now. "No bathing suit? Are you sure you're not a nun?" "Some nuns swim.
~ April Lindner
I'll be a nun, raise my daughter, and make albums.
~ Brandy Norwood
Finn) "You're sure you're not a sister?" he tossed back at her, his voice little more than a growl on the night air. She was closer than he thought, making decent enough headway on the steep hill. "I'm an only child." Stupid, he thought. "I'm asking if you're a holy nun." "I told you, I'm not a nun, holy or otherwise." Okay, she met the criteria for fuckable.
~ Anne Stuart
Ze zal Cassandra heten. - Abdis Margrit
~ John Flanagan
She had become so dully habituated to married life that in her full matronliness she was as sexless as an anemic nun. She was a good woman, a kind woman, a diligent woman, but no one, save perhaps Tinka her ten-year-old, was at all interested in her or entirely aware that she was alive.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Christians - whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever - have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That's what Christianity is.
~ Patricia Heaton