Leper Colony Quotes

#1. If philosophy is mountain climbing
then literature is an anti-gravity parade
I love thee like a leper colony
loves to make a trade

Carl-John X. Veraja

#2. As Emile Leger said when he left his mansion in Montreal to go live in a leper colony in Africa, The time for talking is over.

Brennan Manning

#3. In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.

Allan Sherman

#4. I wanted to be a district attorney and solve hidden problems or maybe even be a leper-colony missionary and save people.

Diane Ladd

#5. Later the island was turned into a leper colony, a lunatic asylum, and a naval base. The government had only recently turned the island back into a prison.

Nelson Mandela

#6. Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.

Blake Edwards

#7. When you are unconditionally open and soft in your heart while your self empties and while your self fills, you live fulfilling the law of containment.

John De Ruiter

#8. It was hoped we might have two lives - the way cats are said to have nine. This life we ruined, and another, for after.

Nova Ren Suma

#9. It's really important that we get rid of the idea that protest will create change. We don't realize that that kind of organizing worked only when the government was very strong, when the West ruled the world, relatively speaking.

Grace Lee Boggs

#10. Yount, who was an 18-year-old shortstop when he met Uecker, and is one of Bob's closest friends, noticed immediately that the event was held in the afternoon with only a smattering of media members on hand. "God, this unbelievable," Yount said. "Fifty thousand empty seats. What a ceremony.

Bill Schroeder

#11. Happy Valentine's... Let's wear costumes!

Ray Palla

#12. Sarah Palin is treated like a bimbo sometimes, but she has never given the public the respect they deserve. She acts silly and doesn't know stuff. She didn't even finish her term.

Gail Collins

#13. Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel.

Seneca.

#14. ...that secret hostility natural between brothers, the roots of which --little nursery rivalries--sometimes toughen and deepen as life goes on, and, all hidden, support a plant capable of producing in season the bitterest fruits.

John Galsworthy

#15. SMILE - IT NO BROKE YOUR FACE!
-on a stone in Kalaupapa

Alan Brennert

#16. Our ancestors went for days without anything to eat, and carbohydrates were extremely scarce for two million years. The truth is, fat is the preferred fuel for human metabolism.

Mark Sisson