“ Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train. ”
- John Milton- Copy
- 47
“ The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea. ”
- Alice Walker- Copy
- 3.5K
“ I would live with all of my sisters if I could. We've always been very close, my sisters and me. ”
- Tom Cruise- Copy
- 344
“ When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and stuffed animals, pretend like they're real dogs. ”
- Dakota Fanning- Copy
- 1.3K
“ In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters. ”
- Richard Gere- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Convent. A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 807
“ It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners. ”
- Jim Elliot- Copy
- 3.6K
“ No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother. ”
- Michael Franti- Copy
- 2.8K
“ More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you've been bad and good. ”
- Linda Sunshine- Copy
- 544
“ She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth. ”
- Christina Rossetti- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. ”
- Margaret Mead- Copy
- 2.2K
“ A Carmelite nun should be, by the very nature of her vocation, a specialist in prayer. Or, to give it a more modern twist, she is a career woman in the field of prayer and contemplation. ”
- Mother Catherine Thomas- Copy
- 1.4K
“ My manager wants me to dress like a nun and I want to dress like a teenager. ”
- Anna Kournikova- Copy
- 2.4K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The sixties were when hallucinogentic drugs were really, really big. And I don't think it's a coincidence that we had the type of shows we had then, like The Flying Nun. ”
- Ellen DeGeneres- Copy
- 3.7K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.5K
“ I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there. ”
- Martha Plimpton- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammedanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
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