Famous Quotes & Sayings

If child molestation is actually your concern, how come we don't see Bradley tanks knocking down Catholic churches?

Juanes

I have great respect for Catholic traditions; my family is Catholic, and it's part of my life.

Bradley Cooper

Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I cant say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I dont do it, it plagues me.

Broderick Crawford

I'm what you call a deathbed Catholic.

Ursula Burns

I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.

Oscar Hijuelos

Nightclubs are the equivalent of a Catholic Church in a poor country. You hear a lot of stuff about churches filled with gold while the people are starving. But what elitists don't get is that for poor people, the church is their own mansion. Nightclubs fill the same function.

Elizabeth George

I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.

D. Elton Trueblood

The more we study the early Church, the more we realize that it was a society of ministers. About the only similarity between the Church at Corinth and a contemporary congregation, either Roman Catholic or Protestant, is that both are marked, to a great degree, by the presence of sinners.

Dan Brown

Neutrinos have mass? i didn't even know they're Catholic!" Robert to Vittoria

Donatella Versace

To be Catholic puts a lot of fear in you. It's a great religion, but also one that can limit your experience. You fear experience because everything is a sin.

Doug Stanhope

The catholic church has a lot more money than any Colombian cartel and they leave a lot more bodies in their wake.

Andres Serrano

In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.

Anselm of Canterbury

A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death.

Alison Bechdel

I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.

Donald Wuerl

Everything we see in a Catholic church is there for a single purpose: to tell a love story.

Dorothy Kilgallen

I don't need a psychiatrist. I'm Catholic.

Dorothy Day

When it comes to labor and politics, I am inclined to be sympathetic to the left, but when it comes to the Catholic Church, then I am far to the right.

Danny Boyle

The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.

Dan Simmons

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction

Amber Heard

I can definitely make an argument for atheism. I was very educated in scripture and dogma and the church, particularly the Catholic Church. I could not possibly know that I disagreed with religion unless I knew what I was disagreeing with.

Anna Quindlen

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.

Alfred Hitchcock

One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.

Andrew Greeley

God draws straight with crooked lines.

What we would like them to do is send them a message that this kind of hate speech which is designed to intimidate Catholics from engaging in public discussions can't be tolerated.

Andrew Greeley

God lurks everywhere. That's the fundamental Catholic instinct on the imaginative and poetic level-that God is lurking everywhere. Right down the street, right around the corner, there's God.

Hanna Rosin

For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations - not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between Lutherans and Episcopalians and Southern Baptists and the other endlessly fine-tuned sects.

I would go into synagogues and talk to people before that concert and they would say, 'Oh, the pope and the Catholic Church -- you know what they did to us at the Holocaust and ... after that concert -- Wow. I would go out after that concert and people were astonished.

Gene Luen Yang

In 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized 120 saints of China, 87 of whom were ethnically Chinese. My home church was incredibly excited because this was the first time the Roman Catholic Church acknowledged Chinese citizens in this way.

Chris Farley

I remember one time when all the nuns in my Catholic grade school got around in a semicircle, me and Mom in the middle, and they said, 'Mrs. Farley, the children at school are laughing at Christopher, not with him.' I thought, 'Who cares? As long as they're laughing.'

Clarence Thomas

I was Catholic. You talk about a minority within a minority within a minority: a black Catholic in Savannah, GA.

Cherie Blair

I feel very strongly about contraception even though I know people say that, as a good Catholic girl, I shouldn't. But I disagree because I think one of the keys to women's progression in the 20th century is being able to control their fertility.

Donald Wuerl

I think the strength of the Catholic church is that when it does finally identify a problem, it works to resolve it.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The Catholics of Maryland were the first people on the new continent to declare universal religious toleration. Let this be remembered to their eternal honor.