Rudy Giuliani Quotes

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

I wanted passionately to be a priest.

I will be a priest forever.

And I was very interested in the priesthood.

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 have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me... I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely... I could have used a bit more solitude.

At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or law school. Where it ends, I'm not quite sure. Perhaps it ends with death, grappling with one's spirituality.

I went into the seminary when I was 16.

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

I briefly thought of becoming a priest but quickly saw that would be ridiculous.

Every kid that goes to Catholic school believes he's going to be a priest one day.

I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind.

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 to be a priest when I was really young.

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

As a matter of fact, I decided in high school that I was going to go to the seminary. And I did study with the Paulist Fathers for two years after high school in full anticipation of becoming a priest.

I wanted to be a soccer player. And then I wanted to be a rabbi.

When I gave my life to the Lord, I thought I'd be a preacher.

I wanted to be a Priest at one point. I was pretty religious. I was an altar boy, and I was good at it. Then, I started meeting girls and I'm like 'You know, maybe I shouldn't be a Priest.'

Back when I was 8 or 9 and wanted to be a nun, I would often stop at church on my way home from school.

My dad's a pastor and a seminary professor; my mom, she has such great faith.

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.

At the end of four years' time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there's your numbers.

I studied with the idea of becoming a Catholic priest.