Catholic School Quotes:

I went to Catholic school. Do as you're told; don't ask questions and you will be illuminated.

- Katherine Helmond

topic: School, Catholic, Catholic School

A good school provides a rounded education for the whole person. And a good Catholic school, over and above this, should help all its students to become saints.

- Pope Benedict XVI

topic: School, Catholic, Saint, Catholic School, Whole Person

Let us thank all those who teach in Catholic schools. Educating is an act of love; it is like giving life.

- Pope Francis

topic: School, Giving, Catholic, Catholic School

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

- Lenny Bruce

topic: Jesus, Children, School, Anti Religious, Catholic School

Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character... By teaching the word of God, you prepare your students to follow a path of virtue.

- George W. Bush

topic: Teaching, School, Humor, Catholic School

Catholic schools prepare every student to meet the challenges of their future by developing their mind, yes, but also their body and their soul and spirit.

- David Vitter

topic: School, Catholic, Challenges, Catholic School

Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.

- Joe Baca

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Graduation, Catholic School

Catholic school gave me the tools to reject the very religion they wanted me to have. They taught me how to think for myself and to be independent.

- George Carlin

topic: School, Independent, Thinking, Catholic School

By offering an education centered on values, the faculty in Catholic schools can create an interactive setting between parents and students that is geared toward long-term healthy character and scholastic development for all enrolled children.

- Mark Foley

topic: Children, School, Character, Interactive, Catholic School

I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child in a community atmosphere.

- Mark Foley

topic: Children, School, Unique, Catholic School

Our Catholic schools exist to help young people attain holiness in their lives, that is, to become saints.

- Salvatore J. Cordileone

topic: School, People, Catholic, Catholic School

You can always tell who went to catholic school, because they're atheists.

- Mike Birbiglia

topic: Atheist, School, Catholic, Catholic School, Christian Education

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

- Joe Baca

topic: Teacher, Children, Teaching, Instill, Catholic School

You know, my children go to a local, local catholic school just down the road.

- John Deacon

topic: Children, School, Catholic, Catholic School

You should have seen me in my Catholic school girl skirt with my knees knocking together.

- Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

topic: Girl, School, Should Have, Catholic School, School Girl

When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down.

- Mike Krzyzewski

topic: Sports, Football, School, Catholic School

I loved Catholic school. I didn't like being beeped at by old pervs at the gas station because I was wearing a plaid skirt, though. It's like, do you think I'm going to stop and give you my phone number?

- Kristen Bell

topic: School, Thinking, Numbers, Pervs, Catholic School

That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board.

- Charles Tupper

topic: Religious, Educational, Book, Standpoint, Catholic School

I had a very marginal understanding of what faith in God was growing up because, although I went to a Catholic school, without having parents who really were actively involved in faith there was no reinforcement of it. So, as a result of that I guess I just kind of thought that God was somebody that you put in a box and you put Him on a shelf and you called on him when you had crises.

- Patricia Mauceri

topic: Growing Up, School, Parent, Catholic School, Reinforcement

They tried to make me go to Catholic school, too. I lasted a very short time. When the penguin came after me with a ruler, I was out of there.

- Frank Zappa

topic: School, Catholic, Penguins, Catholic School

In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.

- Mark Foley

topic: School, Compassion, Discipline, Catholic School, Academic Standards

I'm really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use make for great senses of humor.

- Denis Leary

topic: School, Catholic, Use, Catholic School

It's very Canadian of me - or maybe it's more the Catholic schoolgirl in me - but I always really want to do a good job.

- Samantha Bee

source: Interview with Catherine O’Hara, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 4, 2016.

topic: Jobs, Catholic, Want, Catholic School

I was raised in Catholic school where we were given a lot of heavy literature and a dense, weighty lyric wasn't strange to me. I didn't need everything to be light and simple for me to see the beauty in it.

- Jennifer Warnes

topic: School, Simple, Light, Catholic School

Ive always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater. I became obsessed with that.

- Daniela Bobadilla

topic: Girl, School, Catholic, Catholic School

I was raised Catholic and went to Catholic school until junior high. I don't believe in transmigration or anything like that. I have resentment for being forced to believe in something. I will always think of the church as an institution and not a comfort.

- Alice Glass

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Believe, School, Thinking, Catholic School

I have a lot of mental scars from being brought up Catholic and being sent to Catholic school for 13 years!

- Mat McNerney

topic: School, Years, Catholic, Catholic School

I would not call myself Catholic anymore, but I went to 16 years of Catholic school: grade school, high school and college.

- William Mapother

source: "Going on From Lost, Actor William Mapother Heads to Another Earth". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2011.

topic: School, College, Years, Catholic School

I am and have always been a strong proponent of public education. But by the virtue of its very nature - publicly funded schools cannot offer the type of spiritual education that Catholic schools have long provided.

- Mark Foley

topic: Spiritual, Strong, School, Spiritual Education, Catholic School

I went to a Catholic school with 40 kids total. There were no cliques, but I suppose I was the sporty good girl.

- Taylor Cole

topic: Girl, School, Kids, Catholic School

This is the heritage of Catholic education ... one which those who went to Catholic schools always recognize in each other, members of a secret society who, when they meet, huddle together, temporarily at truce with the rest of the world, while they cautiously, untrustingly, lick each other's wounds.

- Sonia Orwell

topic: School, Catholic, Secret, Catholic School, Catholic Education

In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school, two years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies.

- Barack Obama

source: Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.154, Canongate Books

topic: Mother, Teacher, School, Catholic School, Indonesia

I went to Catholic school for 12 years and went to church every Sunday. I may not do that anymore but I think it gave me a good basis. I've also explored things on my own different philosophies and spiritual teachings and I use what works for me.

- Jennifer Lopez

topic: Spiritual, Philosophy, Teaching, Spiritual Teaching, Catholic School

I went to a Catholic School, and underneath my school uniform, I wore a metal shirt.

- George Stroumboulopoulos

topic: School, Catholic, Uniforms, Catholic School, School Uniforms

We were a religious, practicing, Catholic family - Mass together on Sunday, Catholic schools, and parents who practiced everything they preached. A great gift was their total absence of any derogatory talk about people of any race or culture and we were on a street of many faiths, though no other races at that early time.

- Trina

topic: Religious, School, Sunday, Catholic School, Derogatory

So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since I had felt very strongly in my early schooling being marginalised even in the Catholic school.

- Thomas Keneally

topic: Sports, School, Australia, Catholic School

I grew up Irish Catholic with a bunch of kids at Catholic school.

- Brigid Brannagh

topic: School, Kids, Catholic, Catholic School

One of the first things Catholic school taught me is that babies were born sinners. You sucked before you took your first breath.

- Lizz Winstead

source: Lizz Winstead (2012). “Lizz Free or Die: Essays”, p.25, Penguin

topic: Baby, School, Catholic, Catholic School

Begin your story with a sentence that will immediately grab hold of your listener's ears like a surly nun in a Catholic school.

- Amy Sedaris

topic: School, Catholic, Stories, Catholic School, Surly

I attended Catholic school. We received a great education from the nuns. ... Also, guilt. Guilt and a feeling of never being satisfied with what you've done. And a sense that you are inadequate and a big phony. All useful for a writer. I'm always being edited by my inner nun.

- George Saunders

topic: School, Catholic, Feelings, Catholic School

It is, after all, far too easy to pinch and kick the bizarre Mormon Church; to say it's ripe for satire and parody is to say a Catholic schoolgirl is ripe for debauchery. It's like shooting polygamist fish in a barrel of coffee.

- Mark Morford

source: "The end of the wicked old Mormons" by Mark Morford, www.sfgate.com. May 7, 2010.

topic: Coffee, Catholic, Church, Catholic School, Debauchery

According to an article on CNN.com, a new study says people who are bad kissers don't get laid. Where are you supposed to learn how to kiss? If you go to Catholic school, it's from your priest; in public school, you learn from your teacher; and some guys learn from their sisters... if their sister is Angelina Jolie.

- Chelsea Handler

topic: Teacher, School, Kissing, Catholic School

I went to an all-girls Catholic school. And all the nuns just breathed down our necks "abstinence." And that's not the right thing to do. It does not work. Kids will not listen to that. They're going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest. You have to say, "You know what, if you're gonna do it, at least think about the consequences and get protection.

- Jenny McCarthy

topic: Girl, School, Kids, Catholic School

Private boarding schools and Catholic schools on the East Coast are something. Choate really ruined my father's life. He's had nightmares about Choate every since he went there. Treat Williams, who's a good friend, went to Kent School, in Connecticut. The stories I've heard about those places - didn't you have one nun who was just the worst nightmare?

- Laura Dern

topic: School, Good Friend, Catholic, Catholic School

I grew up with a lot of spirituality. It wasn't necessarily organized religion, because my mom was Jewish and my dad was Muslim. I went to Catholic school. There was a lot of conversation about comparative religions.

- Patricia Arquette

topic: Mom, Dad, School, Catholic School, Comparative Religion

During my childhood years in a Catholic school, one teacher who was more nuts than the rest told me I'd fry in hell if I were a lesbian so I thought maybe the best idea was to be straight.

- Olof Arnalds

topic: Teacher, School, Years, Catholic School

I was nurtured in the church; I went to a Catholic school; I was an altar boy; I went to a Catholic university; I was steeped in the moral tradition of the Catholic Church. My Catholicism plays a very strong role. But I thought President John F.Kennedy answered rather well when he said that ultimately my conduct as a public official does not come ex cathedra from Rome; it comes from my conscience.

- Bruce Babbitt

source: Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

topic: Catholic School

To the extent that the parents who send their children to these [Catholic] schools are parents like my own, who actually have faith in the church. Faith that it will provide their children with safety, a decent education and values about life and others. This is an institution that stands for all good in the world.

- Sonia Sotomayor

source: Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

topic: Children, School, Safety, Catholic School

I wasn't raised very religiously because my parents went to Catholic school, but I do believe in God very much. I just never gave God a name, if you know what I mean. I hope I haven't let Him down regardless.

- Stephen Chbosky

topic: Believe, School, Mean, Catholic School

I'm able to laugh now, because I've gone through a lot of mental and physical therapy to heal over the years, my music's been wonderful for me. But I was a shell of my former self at one point. I was not myself. To be fair, I was about 19, so ... I went to Catholic school and all this crazy stuff happened, and I was going, 'Oh, is this just the way adults are?' I was very naive.

- Lady Gaga

source: "Lady Gaga's most revealing interview yet" by Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. December 3, 2014.

topic: Music, Crazy, School, Catholic School, Physical Therapy