Famous Quotes & Sayings

He who reads much and understands much, receives his fill. He who is full, refreshes others.

Angus Wilson

Once a Catholic always a Catholic.

Allen Ginsberg

This is the same notion - Catholic exorcism, psychotherapy, shamanistic practices - getting to the moment when whatever it was gained access. And also to the name of the spirit. Just to know that it's the Ugly Spirit. That's a great step. Because the spirit doesn't want its name to be known.

Allen Ginsberg

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.

Abraham Cowley

And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.

When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.

Jack Greene

Over 70 percent of those that we serve are Catholic. We really need to partner with the Catholic Church more than we do.

Meghan Markle

I went to an all-girls' Catholic school for, like, six years during the time when kids actually had handwriting class. I've always had a propensity for getting the cursive down pretty well.

Central Catholic did play a good schedule, but at some point, you've got to win some of those games. We think we play a pretty good schedule, too.

Catholics, just like the rest of the state, would support such a law, even requiring Catholic hospitals to provide emergency contraceptives.

Aaron Klein

Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.

Catholic liturgical music, it would seem, is everywhere but in the Catholic Church itself.

Catholic Charities USA is firmly committed to helping people rebuild their lives,

Hans Kung

But we must wait and see, for experience shows that the papacy in the Catholic Church today is such a challenge that it can change anyone.

Alison Bechdel

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

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.

Donald Wuerl

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

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.

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.

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.

I would hope that Catholics who are committed to peace and justice would demand that the University do something.

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.

Kurt Braunohler

For a really long time in my life, I fought against how I look. Because I was raised Catholic in school, where everyone had to wear a suit and tie. I hated everything that stood for. And I realized when I walked down the street, everyone would see the guy I hated and not the guy I was.

Make no mistake: Your Catholic family and mine - not some disembodied Catholic institution - are the financial targets of these lawsuits,

Stanley Hauerwas

Let me be clear: I am a Methodist. By that, I mean I think John Wesley was a recovery of Catholic Christianity through disciplined congregational life.

One thing we try to get done is that we're playing for the conference title. I think we're going to be solid enough. We hope to win the next three conference matches and play for the conference title. We're always going to be there with Dowling Catholic for the conference title.

Kim Jones

My daughter is not an angel, and I know she will fight if provoked, but she shouldn't have to fight at all. Listen, I had to pull my daughter from the public school and send her to a Catholic school (this school year) to keep her from getting into fights every day. Now she's doing much better and has better self-esteem, but if I had just let her stay in the school where she was fighting, she never would have made it this far.