Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Fuhrman

Shortly after her feeding tube is removed, Terri Schiavo receives the Catholic ceremony of last rites. Michael Schiavo stays in a room down the hall. He remains at his wife's side throughout the day, except when her immediate family comes to see Terri.

Roger Mahony

Since Roe v. Wade, there have been a lot of Catholic politicians doing and saying things that would not be in line with the church's teaching.

She needs to do better with white Catholic men from the Midwest.

Mom, can we go Catholic so we can get communion wafers and booze?

Elie Wiesel

Never have the relations between Jews and Catholics been as good.

We won't be looking past Catholic to Westminster or anything like that. Monday is what we are looking for.

Mentally and physically, Joliet Catholic just wears you down,

Billy Corgan

I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.

Bill Condon

Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.

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.

The neighborhood children told me that their Polish Catholic priest said that they could no longer play with me because I was a Protestant.

It's the salvation a tournament gives you that you're looking to find. You have a chance for redemption. We have so many Catholic schools in the league, I guess we can say it's absolution. We can have all our sins absolved with a good weekend.

Rachel Tucker

It's such a relief to see Catholic and Protestant ministers getting on - that's so rare. And in 'I'd Do Anything,' I've had so much support from folks back home, no matter what side they're on.

Roxane Gay

I try to understand faith and religion. I was raised by wonderful Catholic parents who were deeply faithful and taught us that God is a God of love.

Andrew Greeley

You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You just take the rules a lot more seriously, because it pervades your culture.

Dan Simmons

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

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.

This was an event that not only has exceptional meaning for Germany, not only for the Catholic Church, but also for the Jewish community in Germany and in the world. It is a historic day, an event that will be thankfully remembered by future generations.

Rick Ross

The parameters of Jewish identity exclusively and historically lay within the Jewish community. Unless you recognize the parameters of a religion's identity, you are going down a slippery slope and opening the doors to anything and everything n Catholics for Krishna, Mormons for Mohammed, Baptists for Buddha.

There are links on there to Catholic Family Services, and there's nobody who's more political than the Catholic church in South Dakota.

This was intended to be about the Catholic Church.

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.

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.

Evo Morales

I am Catholic. But I am opposed to a monopoly when it comes to faith.

Mark Wahlberg

Being a Catholic is the most important aspect of my life.

Douglas Hyde

For the first time in Ireland within my recollection, Catholic and Protestant, Unionist and Nationalist, landlord and tenant, priest and parson, all work hand in hand in the interest of Ireland's life and intellectuality.

H. L. Mencken

The Catholic clergy seldom bother to make their arguments plausible; it is plain that they have little respect for human intelligence, and indeed little belief in its existence.

Paul Begala

I try hard to be a good Catholic.