Catholic Family Quotes

#1. I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.

Nic Pizzolatto

#2. I grew up in a Catholic family in the Midwest. And I knew people of different faiths and people that were atheists and people that were agnostic.

Jim Gaffigan

#3. I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.

Brian Dennehy

#4. My mother desperately wanted to give her kids a wholesome environment, and we were born into a traditional Catholic family.

Marco Rubio

#5. I was a very nice boy. I was well-educated ... very Catholic family. So I was very respectful, never late at work. I was always the last one to leave. It's always been that way in my life.

Riccardo Tisci

#6. I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don't know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh.

Jenny McCarthy

#7. I come from a very, very Catholic family. We used to pray the rosary every day after dinner.

Juanes

#8. I grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie.

Jimmy Fallon

#9. And I'm a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt.

Bob Gunton

#10. Cardinal Dolan, of course, has a very, very hard job: trying to hold up Catholic family values in sexually liberal New York City. I'm not saying New York is the Gay Mecca. But it's at least Gay-rusalem.

Stephen Colbert

#11. I was raised in a Catholic family, spent twelve years in parochial schools, and had extremely fond memories of my interactions with Catholic clergy.

Jennifer Haigh

#12. I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left home when he was 15 and found his way to the gym. It gave me the opportunity to go and spend some time with him and work out in the gym.

Gerry Cooney

#13. I grew up in a working-class Catholic family in south Louisiana. I went to a state university. I taught literature, wrote a novel that was the novel I wanted to write, and got a couple of good reviews but no real traction. I had no idea how to get a job in TV.

Nic Pizzolatto

#14. When you don't have kids and you're in a Catholic family - one of my sisters had 10 children in 11 years - she's part rabbit - you feel kind of guilty about that. So, I want to do things for other people's children.

Marge Schott

#15. As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.

Nancy Pelosi

#16. I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.

Dennis Lehane

#17. I was born into an Irish Catholic family in the New York area in this great, wonderful, and safe country, but the Holocaust has always haunted me, and it has long stood as a stumbling block to faith. How could such a thing be? How is that consistent with the concept of a loving God?

James Comey

#18. I've usually found every Catholic family has one lapsed member, and it's often the nicest.

Evelyn Waugh

#19. I would like to grow less afraid of dying. I am infinitely less afraid today than I was 15 or 25 years ago. I was most afraid of dying when I was 33, because I come from a Catholic family.

Sidney Poitier

#20. I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.

Park Chan-wook

#21. Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning ... it's a tradition my family has followed since I was very little.

Malaika Arora Khan

#22. Freedom of choice makes it possible to plan our lives and to make the most of ourselves. Yet if this freedom lacks noble goals or personal discipline, it degenerates into an inability to give oneself generously to others.

Pope Francis

#23. It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry.

H.L. Mencken

#24. I have great respect for Catholic traditions; my family is Catholic, and it's part of my life.

Juanes

#25. I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.

Isabel Allende

#26. Thankfully, I was able to go to Marquette University and get my education, a Catholic education, so I could please my family, because I think they wanted me to be a priest.

Danny Pudi

#27. I went to Catholic school throughout my whole academic life. In fact, my children - my husband and I and our children in my own family now have over 100 years of Catholic education among us.

Nancy Pelosi

#28. I come from a very hospitable, close, Catholic, matriarchal family.

Francesca Annis

#29. 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

#30. In my family, we were on again off again Unitarians, partly because my father, raised Roman Catholic, had had enough of church.

Stacey D'Erasmo

#31. I have an enormous family because I'm from Montreal and my family's Catholic, so my dad has eight siblings and they all have kids and we all grew up in the same property on weekends and summers.

Jessica Pare

#32. My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.

Whoopi Goldberg

#33. I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.

Vera Farmiga

#34. I'm from a family with five kids in it, and my father almost became a Catholic priest. And my mother never went to church, but she's the best Christian I know. My siblings have all chosen different paths to or away from their spirituality.

Carrie Coon

#35. I really do feel that these people are brothers and sisters in God's family. I am looking to build bridges with the Orthodox Church, looking to build bridges with the Catholic Church, with the Anglican church.

Rick Warren

#36. We're a Muslim family, but we're also very cultured and we have a mixture of different religions. For example, my brother-in-law is Catholic, and my sister converted and my nephews are baptized. I have an uncle who just graduated and currently he's a priest.

Rima Fakih

#37. Mom was always doing something for somebody. She came from a Czech background, one that made her a devout Catholic and gave her a strong belief in the family.

Eugene Cernan

#38. Some crazy man came up to me and started screaming at me about how he hated Allah, and before I could tell him that my family was part of the Catholic Church in India, he knifed me.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#39. My family is Catholic. I went to a Catholic school, that kind of thing, so that was my childhood for sure.

Conor Oberst

#40. I was brought up Catholic, and my family is still very religious.

Donna Mills

#41. I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that's all I ever was associated with.

Lou Holtz

#42. I grew up in a pretty religious house. My family was Roman Catholic, and I couldn't wait to get away from that. But that doesn't mean I'm not a spiritual person.

Jeff Lemire

#43. For reasons I can't remember, my family eventually stopped attending church, and I started questioning the Catholic Church's beliefs. I dabbled a little, but nothing stuck.

Ann Hood

#44. I come from a family of Catholic Italians, and that will always be in my blood.

Jenna Morasca

#45. I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.

Bradley Cooper

#46. You have how many children in your family?" the teacher would ask. "I'm guessing you must be Catholic, am I right?

David Sedaris

#47. There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try to be funny to lighten the mood.

Julie Brown

#48. An armchair Jungian would say the whole thing is about my own ongoing spiritual search. My interior life has always been one of trying to find a spiritual link, maybe because I'm from a family of separate religious philosophies: Protestant and Catholic.

David Bowie

#49. At home we ate fish every Friday, as Catholics were then supposed to do. Being Jewish, I compromised. I wore a hat when I ate fish, out of respect for my own religion and the fish's family.

George Burns

#50. The problem is that we don't believe that we are much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholic and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very eager to join in one human family in this world, and to care about that family the way we care about our own.

Mitch Albom

#51. It's at the core of the Catholic faith, and to imagine how we are going to succeed in our country unless we have committed family life, a child-centered family system, is hard to imagine.

Jeb Bush

#52. They looked like good people, but deep down they were pieces of shit. They often found they way into politics, and they talked about God, family values and country. They were the new cavaliers of the Catholic culture.

Niccolo Ammaniti

#53. I went to a Catholic University and there's something about being a Catholic-American. You know, St. Patrick's Day is, I'm Irish-Catholic. There's alcoholism in my family. It's like I've got to be Catholic, right?

Jim Gaffigan

#54. My family is very traditional, Catholic.

Paz Vega

#55. I grew up, as reported, in a large family of Catholics without even a decent ration of tentativeness among the lot of us about our religious faith.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#56. I think of the Kennedy family and I think of their faith ... Along came John F. Kennedy and a part of his legacy is that ... he didn't just break the Catholic barrier, he crushed it.

Doug Wead

#57. 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.

Mark Fuhrman

#58. My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a weird mix.

Ian Gomez

#59. The hagaddah came to Sarajevo for a reason. It was here to test us, to see if there were people who could see that what united us was more than what divided us. That to be a human being matters more than to be a Jew or a Muslim, Catholic or Orthodox. p. 361

Geraldine Brooks