“I would not call myself Catholic anymore, but I went to 16 years of Catholic school: grade school, high school and college.” YearsSchoolCollegeHigh SchoolCatholicGradesGrades In SchoolCatholic School Author:William Mapother
“I was raised a Catholic as a boy and went to a Catholic boys' high school, a private school, and kind of drifted away, candidly, in my latter teen years. I consider myself deeply spiritual but not in an institutional, religious kind of a way. In Catholicism, we're surrounded by these images of martyrdom and doing penance and doing some suffering to achieve what you're trying to achieve. And I certainly embedded that in my psyche and I have lived that very effectively.” WayTryingYearsKindSchoolSpiritualSufferingReligiousBoysAchieveHigh SchoolCatholicRaisedLatterCatholicismEmbeddedMartyrdomPenancePrivate School Author:James Balog
“Oh, yes, I taught 13 and a half years. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.” YearsFirstsSchoolHalfTaughtHigh SchoolCatholicForestsLakesHalf A YearCatholic School Author:Elizabeth George
“I went to Catholic high school, so my being in this [the craft] is not going to make my grandmother very happy. It's funny, because I was the only one who is Catholic in it. You have this thing in mass where you have to genuflect before you go into the pew, so I said you have to do this [for a scene] and they said why, and I said because you have to; I don't know why, it's a rule. Or like instinct. It's funny they set in a Catholic school. I went to St. Ignatius College Prep - "Where Modesty is our Policy."” KnowsSaidSchoolPolicyCollegeSceneMassHigh SchoolCatholicInstinctCraftsGrandmotherModestyThey SaidVery HappyMy GrandmotherPrepsCatholic School Author:Robin Tunney
“My parents, neither one of them went to college. That wasn't available to them. But, you know, we had a wonderful life. You know, it - you know, we lived in what would now be considered poverty, but, you know, it didn't feel like poverty when I was living it. I had a great time and got a - had a great experience. I went to Catholic school through high school. I had a wonderful education.” KnowsFeelsSchoolParentPovertyWonderfulCollegeHigh SchoolCatholicAvailableGreat TimesGreat ExperiencesWonderful LifeCatholic SchoolHad A Great Time Author:Tad Devine
“When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.” SchoolFoundTeacherEventsLateHigh SchoolCatholicDrawingMagazinesPhiladelphiaCaricaturesNotoriety Author:Bil Keane
“I went to George Washington High School for six months before my 16th birthday, when I could legally quit. That was an even worse experience than the Catholic schools. I mean, they were still teaching fractions. But mostly, I played hooky.” MeanStillsSchoolTeachingMonthsSixHigh SchoolCatholicQuittingSix MonthsFractionsCatholic School16th Birthday Author:George Carlin
“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.” FirstsSchoolSportsBoysFootballHigh SchoolFirst TimeCatholicKnocked DownHypnosisCatholic School Author:Mike Krzyzewski
“I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.” YearsSchoolHalfHigh SchoolCatholicCool ThingsHalf A Year Author:Mandy Moore
“When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team.” RunningSchoolTreeTeamFootballBasketballHigh SchoolCatholicCoachesForestsRanNflPhiladelphiaAmerican FootballFootball PlayerFootball TeamHomecomingFootball CoachGood BasketballSports FootballFunny FootballFunny American FootballNfl FootballInspirational Football CoachHigh School Football Author:George Raveling
“At first, I didn't hang out with celebrity kids. That wasn't the way I was brought up. I went to a run-of-the-mill Catholic primary school when we first moved to L.A. But then I went to a high school where there were lots of 'industry' children. Those weren't my best friends and I've never set out to make myself a part of that scene.” WayFirstsChildrenRunningKidsSchoolIndustrySceneHigh SchoolCatholicMovedPrimariesHanging OutMy Best FriendMillsPrimary School Author:Lily Collins