Catholic Quotes
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Parochial schools in the United States are also responsible for educating students from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, including many who are non-Catholic.
Mark Foley -
I can't help it. I want to be a good Catholic, but I'm a hedonist.
Chris Farley
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I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.
Nathan Lane -
Oh, yes, I taught 13 and a half years. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.
Elizabeth George -
I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.
Omari Hardwick -
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.
Ursula Burns -
If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!
Pope Francis
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I went to Catholic school. Do as you're told; don't ask questions and you will be illuminated.
Katherine Helmond -
I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed in that Catholic mould that I don't think I could adopt any other form of spirituality. I still get feelings of consolation about churches.
Rachel Cusk -
The Catholic Church is one of the oldest, largest and richest institutions on earth, with a following 1.2 billion strong, and change does not come naturally.
Nancy Gibbs -
There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.
Jack White The White Stripes -
I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
Edna O'Brien -
I'm sorry if any of you are Catholic. I'm not sorry if you're offended, I'm actually just sorry by the fact that you're Catholic.
Bill Hicks
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I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over.
Will Smith -
I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.
Imelda Staunton -
My parents were both born in Birmingham, Alabama, and come from large Catholic families with lots of Michaels, Marks, and Patricks, so they wanted to choose two names that I don't think you could find anywhere else in the family tree: Haley and Joel.
Haley Joel Osment -
I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.
Abel Ferrara -
I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.
Natalie Massenet -
I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.
A. N. Wilson
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I am just an ordinary Catholic.
Maggie Gallagher -
I come from a very hospitable, close, Catholic, matriarchal family.
Francesca Annis -
My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.
Olympia Dukakis -
I studied in a Catholic school in Oahu, and I went to a film school in New York.
Jacob Batalon