“I became an altar boy because of the solemn face, but I got thrown out at fourteen for laughing. Because the priest used to mumble everything except the church plate takings.” FacesUsedChurchBoysLaughingThrownPriestsPlatesAltarsSolemnFourteen Author:Elvis Costello
“In tribal times, there were the medicine men. In the Middle Ages, there were the priests. Today, there are the lawyers. For every age, a group of bright boys, learned in their trades and jealous of their learning, who blend technical competence with plain and fancy hocus-pocus to make themselves masters of their fellow men. For every age, a pseudo-intellectual autocracy, guarding the tricks of the trade from the uninitiated, and running, after its own pattern, the civilization of its day.” MenRunningAgeTodayBoysGroupsMiddleMastersCivilizationIntellectualFellowsTradeMedicinePatternsLawyerTricksFancyPriestsJealousFellow ManCompetenceMiddle AgesPseudoGuardingAutocracyHocus PocusPseudo Intellectuals Author:Fred Rodell
“Boy lovers and the lesbians who have young lovers... are not child molesters. The child abusers are priests, teachers, therapists, cops and parents who force their staid morality onto the young people in their custody.” PeopleChildrenChristianYoungForceParentReligiousBoysTeacherLoversMoralityPriestsChild AbuseCopTherapistsYoung LoveAbusersCustody Author:Patrick Califia
“I guess I'm an atheist. But I would say I have very good relationships with the priests that I grew up with. I was an altar boy growing up, and the men of God in my life have always been really lovely, intelligent, well-informed, kind men. So I feel very loyal to their beliefs as much as anything else.” MenFeelsWellsKindBeliefBoysGrowing UpGrowingHe ManGrewGrew UpIntelligentVery GoodAtheistLovelyPriestsLoyalAltarsGood RelationshipMan Of GodKind Man Author:Chris O'Dowd
“To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational literature.” DoeLiteratureBoysPiecesMeditationThousandMassPriestsVocationAltars Book:The Priest Is Not His Own Source: The Priest Is Not His Own
“The best trick I learned was when a priest came to me when I was an altar boy and said, "Always, when you make a mistake, pretend it's ritual." It's beautiful!” SaidBeautifulMistakeBoysTricksPriestsRitualAltars Author:Ragnar Kjartansson
“I was an altar boy in the Roman Catholic Church and no priest ever laid a hand on me. That's me, always the bridesmaid.” HandsChurchBoysCatholicPriestsAltarsCatholic ChurchRoman CatholicRoman Catholic ChurchBridesmaids Author:Dana Gould
“I was, not an altar boy, but a reader of the Epistle, and I walked in on a nun and a priest furiously French kissing when I was in seventh grade. I walked in, saw it, and went, "No way," backed out, composed myself, and went back in, and it was still going on. And the experience of seeing that was actually very deep.” WayStillsBoysSawsSeeingReaderKissingGradesPriestsAltarsVery DeepNunSeventh GradeFrench Kiss Author:George Saunders