Quotes tagged ‘Catholic’

“Rick Gassko: Attention, passengers, we are now leaving Nun Central and are beginning our journey to hell and beyond. The captain has turned off the ‘no smoking’ sign, and you may now move about the cabin freely. [Kids start screaming, reading Playboy, and gambling] Thank you for being Catholic and f…”

— Pat Proft, Bob Israel, Neal Israel, Rick Gassko, Tom Hanks, imdb.com

“It was great to be Catholic and go to confession. You could start over every week.”

— Chazz Palminteri, Calogero "C" Anello (Age 17), Lillo Brancato, imdb.com

“My father was Catholic and my mother was Protestant. And they both agreed that religion was a bit tricky and they should avoid it in its troublesome sense. And so we had a healthy disrespect for what you might call formal religion. But somehow I found a way to still have a faith. Because you know th…”

— Bono, amazon.com

“I'm a Catholic, I don't want to hurt anybody.”

— Frank Pierson, Sonny Wortzik, Al Pacino, imdb.com

“Can't help but notice how much they stick together, too. I mean, when you see Mexicans in the States you think, 'oh, there's a group of Mexicans, doin' Mexican things together', but here you see that it's not just because they talk the same language, and are all Catholic. Family means a lot to these…”

— David Gordon Green, Kenny Powers, Danny McBride, imdb.com

“Jane: Looks like I'll be teaching at a Catholic high school. Xiomara: Maybe you don't tell them you're a pregnant virgin. Jane: The nuns or the high schoolers? Alba: Both.”

— Paul Sciarrotta, Jane Villanueva, Gina Rodriguez, imdb.com

“I might be a vampire but I was raised a good catholic.”

— Allison Rymer, Raphael Santiago, David Castro, imdb.com

“Loretta Haggers: [regains consciousness, groggy] What happened? Charlie Haggers: Oh, honey, we had an accident, hit a station wagon full of nuns. Loretta Haggers: A station wagon full of nuns? Is that a sin? Charlie Haggers: Well, baby, if you're Catholic, but we're not Catholic. Loretta Haggers: Oh…”

— Ann Marcus, Jerry Adelman, Loretta Haggers, Mary Kay Place, imdb.com

“Robert: I mean, what if we'll never be able to be happy because our entire relationship was based on lies and betrayals so awful that karmically we're doomed? Sol: Wow, you're more Jewish than I am. Robert: Well, we Catholics know our way around guilt, too.”

— Howard J. Morris, Marta Kauffman, Robert Hanson, Martin Sheen, imdb.com

“I think the movement contributed to this nation a sense of universal freedom. Precisely because women saw our movement in the sixties, stimulated them to want their rights. The fact that students saw the movement of the sixties created a student movement in this country. The fact that the people wer…”

— Bayard Rustin, en.wikiquote.org

“I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the Catholics, as I am not an enemy of the tuberculars, the myopic or the paralytics; you cannot be an enemy of the sick, only their good friend in order to help them cure themselves.”

— Diego Rivera, goodreads.com

“Religious ‘modesty’ can go f*ck itself.”

— Carolyn A. García, afropunk.com

“For every time you say that there's a purpose behind one person's success, you invalidate billions of people. You say there is a purpose to their suffering. And that's just cruel.”

— Anonymous, facebook.com

“The term 'catholic' (katholikos, a Greek word adopted by the Latin Church) does not mean universal (that is, 'inclusive,' 'encompassing,' and hence by implication to some degree bounding) but rather, in its Greek etymology, kata + holos, through-the-whole, outgoing, expansive.”

— Walter Ong, amazon.com