Brendan Behan Quotes

I wanted to be a priest when I was a kid.

I did think of becoming a priest quite late on, when other boys were thinking of knocking over fences and going out with girls. I would have made a very good bishop: nice housekeeper, nice clothes - god, the clothes.

I wanted passionately to be a priest.

I will be a priest forever.

I wanted to be a priest when I was really young.

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.

I left because I decided it just really wasn't for me, and I got a better understanding of what the Catholic Church needed from its priests and ministers.

I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?

And I was very interested in the priesthood.

Hey, I was raised in the church. I was an altar boy and a choir member. I almost became a priest - until common sense grabbed hold of me.

I was very serious about being a priest, twice in my life. Almost joined the Montfort Seminary after I graduated from high school. Almost went back in the seminary during college.

When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest.

I would love to play a nun. I used to want to be one when I was a kid.

You gotta love these Christians, they're humble people.

I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.

I could hardly be called a pillar of the [Anglican] Church. I am more in the nature of a buttress, for I support it from the outside.

I didn’t want to be a nun.

I was an altar boy. My mother wanted me to be a priest. I am very Christian and Catholic... I'm very faithful.

You should always take what I say about religion with a grain of salt, because the 7 deadly sins are more like my seven daily activities. I try to check them all off at least once a day. All of them except gluttony; my trainer keeps that under control.

My mom is very religious - Catholic - and from a young age they brought me to the church.

I've twice been on the point of giving up my performing career to train for the priesthood.

There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.'