34 Quotations by Andrew Greeley
- 1. An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently ...
- 2. European Catholics tend to be somewhat grim and dour and straightlaced. We shouldn't have been, but ...
- 3. Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of so ...
- 4. However, during my 48 years as a priest, I have learned that in times of crisis, the dodos always ch ...
- 5. I guess I'm a good story teller. What makes me a prolific writer is two factors at work. Celibacy; I ...
- 6. I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubl ...
- 7. I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directi ...
- 8. I mean, I'm a Chicago Irishman, I know how to finesse things. So at least, working with the young pe ...
- 9. I think Catholic Americans had better believe there's truth in all religions, because the Second Vat ...
- 10. I think one of the conclusions that many Catholics drew from the Second Vatican Council is there're ...
- 11. I was never a teenager. I became a teenager in Christ the King and I never grew out of it. More seri ...
- 12. I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that ...
- 13. I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And th ...
- 14. I'd say that Catholicism in the United States has the distinct advantage of being in a pluralistic s ...
- 15. In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's be ...
- 16. In the days long ago when I was in the seminary, we were told that we would be respected by our peop ...
- 17. Most people who are born Catholic are still Catholic, unless they've had a divorce and remarriage pr ...
- 18. Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of ...
- 19. One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious p ...
- 20. One could say at a dinner party that most Americans are faithful to their spouses, and a loud mouth, ...
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