New Guinea Quotes

#1. A dear friend of my early childhood has worked as an anthropologist in Papua New Guinea for much of her life, and from the tiny island where her main work has been focused, she has brought me many funny and beautiful stories over the years.

Michael Leunig

#2. Researchers found a frog in new guinea that is so tiny, they believe it's the smallest vertebrate on the planet. It has the tiniest backbone of any living creature, except members of Congress.

Jay Leno

#3. I would like to go to Kalimantan island in Sumatra to see the carvings and longhouse sculptures. I've also always wanted to look at the wood carvings along the Sepik River in New Guinea.

Antony Gormley

#4. They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, 'But doesn't it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn't it be set in New Guinea?' And you say, 'But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.'

P. J. O'Rourke

#5. The Asaro tribe of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea has a beautiful saying: "Knowledge is only a rumor until it lives in the muscle." What we understand and learn about rising strong is only rumor until we live it and integrate it through some form of creativity so that it becomes part of us.

Brene Brown

#6. Somewhere in the world there must be a cult of divination centered on the interpretation of cranial sutures, but he couldn't recall any from his Cultural Anthro classes. Papua New Guinea maybe. They were big into cranial curation there.

Scott Nicolay

#7. In New Guinea, as in other hot spots of endangerment, indigenous languages are a user's guide to ecosystems that are increasingly fragile and - in the face of climate change - increasingly irreplaceable.

Anonymous

#8. My own health legacy of New Guinea has been a year of malaria and a year of dysentery.

Jared Diamond

#9. My art collection is dominated by tribal art from Nigeria where I taught school, from New Guinea where we've travelled, and by Canadian Haida pieces. My own art is either on exhibition or owned by other people!

Robert Bateman

#10. When they were in Papua New Guinea, God just totally grabbed a hold of Will's heart and totally changed him. And within three months he was saved and he's never looked back since.

Michael Scott

#11. When Captain Moresby landed on New Guinea, a medicine-man exorcised the evil spirit in him by magical jugglery with palm leaves and by playing a kind of leapfrog.

Elsie Clews Parsons

#12. In New Guinea, they had a disease called kuru, transmitted by eating the brains of their enemies." "That's not true." "Gajdusek won a Nobel Prize for it. They were eating brains, all right.

Michael Crichton

#13. In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed ... I managed to escape unscathed though, I'm pretty good at that.

David Bailey

#14. Europeans have never learned to survive in Australia or New Guinea without their inherited Eurasian technology.

Jared Diamond

#15. Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?

Jared Diamond

#16. As an Auyana man living in New Guinea under the Pax Australiana put it, "Life was better since the government came" because "a man could now eat without looking over his shoulder and could leave his house in the morning to urinate without fear of being shot.

Steven Pinker

#17. I was researching a different World War II story when I came across an article in the 'Chicago Tribune' from June 1945 that knocked me for a loop. The article explained that a military plane had crashed in an impossibly remote valley of New Guinea that had been nicknamed Shangri-La.

Mitchell Zuckoff

#18. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht.

G.K. Chesterton

#19. I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn't have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea.

Jon Huntsman Jr.

#20. Each book should be an entity unto itself, with its own structure, character, life, name.

Edward Hirsch

#21. I enjoyed being president, but the campaign against Guinea worm [horrible disease] has opened up a completely new career that is challenging and unpredictable and adventurous - and very gratifying.

Jimmy Carter

#22. An anthropologist at Tulane has just come back from a field trip to New
Guinea with reports of a tribe so primitive that they have Tide but not
new Tide with lemon-fresh Borax.

David Letterman

#23. So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.

Lucretius

#24. We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Cyril Connolly

#25. When I was just a cute little caterpillar, you loved me. So I became a butterfly so you would never leave.

Crystal Woods

#26. I lived through this, I needed to find a new fuckin' job. Janitor. Used car salesman. Guinea pig trainer.

Jessica Gadziala

#27. He had a winning smile and it was evident that he didn't think he was any better than anybody else even though he was.

Flannery O'Connor

#28. pretty soon, there will be ten billion people coming to dinner. And there is no way they are going to be fed organically.

Joe Schwarcz

#29. He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.

Al-Ghazali

#30. The light has gone out of our lives ... Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light ... and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it ... For that light represented the living truth.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#31. Decker smiled and shrugged off their laughter. The humour was only barbed if you sat on the outside, and now he was one of them.

R.D. Ronald

#32. When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

Euripides

#33. Guinea has managed to go 42 days consecutively without any new Ebola infections. And that comes after neighboring Sierra Leone and Liberia, the other two West African countries that were hardest hit by Ebola, have been through the same cycle of zero Ebola cases.

Ofeibea Quist-Arcton