No Leach Quotes

#1. Nature has another power besides the power to terrify.

Amy Leach

#2. If it weren't for Liberace, there would be no Madonna or Lady Gaga, Elton John, Bette Midler, or Elvis because it was Liberace who helped the King glitz up his act.

Robin Leach

#3. For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.

Penelope Leach

#4. I would never go back to doing the show again. I mean, every day I think about Lifestyles because somebody comes up to me and tells me how much they love the show and I should bring it back, but this is not the time to bring it back. I don't think it would be as successful today as it once was.

Robin Leach

#5. Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

Edmund Leach

#6. The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.

Edmund Leach

#7. I stop in exasperation and almost storm out of the Airstream, fed up with myself and with my sister, filled with that itchy combination of fatigue and anxiety that my entire family produces in me. An allergic reaction for which antihistamines can do nothing. I want a drink.

Caite Dolan-Leach

#8. Your preschool child will chatter endlessly to you. If you half-listen and half-reply the whole conversation will seem, and become, tediously meaningless for both of you. but if you really listen and really answer, he will talk more and what he says will make more sense.

Penelope Leach

#9. There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby's. Your body is the child's instrument of birth.

Penelope Leach

#10. I think America is going to have to think through whether it wants to uplift the political dialogue or advance an approach that divides and, frankly, can lead to violence.

Jim Leach

#11. Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now or in the future.

Penelope Leach

#12. Drawing on President Bush's reform plan, which would allow citizens to transfer part of their Social Security contributions into personal accounts, an alteration of the current system is needed to make necessary change.

James A. Leach

#13. Patents are like fertilizer. Applied wisely and sparingly, they can increase growth. But if you apply too many chemicals, or make patents too strong, then you can leach the land, making growth more difficult.

Alex Tabarrok

#14. Civility is not simply about manners.

Jim Leach

#15. When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they're often not thinking. So I'm silent. I wait. Because they think they have to keep answering. And it's the second train of thought that's the better answer.

Robin Leach

#16. The system is wrong where it rewards the lack of interest in work with money, so you don't have to work.

Robin Leach

#17. Iraqis have held elections and have recently put together their government, all encouraging developments.

James A. Leach

#18. Never give up if you really want something, keep plugging away at it and your dreams can come true.

Robin Leach

#19. LSU would be a good place to stand during a lightning storm.

Mike Leach

#20. Plants cannot stay safe. Desire for light spools grass out of the ground; desire for a visitor spools red ruffles out of twigs. Desire makes plants very brave, so they can find what they desire; and very tender, so they can feel what they find.

Amy Leach

#21. While we may live longer than our ancestors, we are in fact dying slower.

Jeff Leach

#22. The first morning may seem to you too grand and expansive, with no familiar thing. The gorgeous wild flowers may seem too strange to you. But every succeeding day will surely seduce you.

Henry Goddard Leach

#23. The world, full of past sound, would be like the sky, full of past light. The world would be like the mind, for which there is no once.

Amy Leach

#24. No other entertainer in the world ever took the risks that Liberace took.

Robin Leach

#25. No activity I know is more of a confidence builder and at the same time more 'humility training' than wrestling.

Jim Leach

#26. Whatever you do to your child's body, you are doing to your child's mind too.

Penelope Leach

#27. Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening ... Being "fearless" means being without fear.

Penelope Leach

#28. I'm convinced that if the same opportunities were made available to everybody, people would want to better their lot in life.

Robin Leach

#29. Back on Nov. 23, 1963, I sailed into Manhattan Harbor onboard the Queen Mary and landed with no job and contacts and just $135 in my pocket. My first lodging was in a rundown hotel for $27 a week with the bathroom down the end of a corridor of beds.

Robin Leach

#30. Molecule Trustees: The sun and all of us are molecule trustees, administering the molecules entrusted to us until they are passed on. Like any trustee, we do not own the property, nor do we decide who will receive what we stewarded. It might be somebody grumpy like Xanthippe.

Amy Leach

#31. You know, I run the Vegas Deluxe website and that really is 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And we have more stars going through this city with shows. We have more disc jockeys playing in nightclubs here, we have more parties, more of everything than any other city in the world. So it's non-stop.

Robin Leach

#32. Grown-up people do very little and say a great deal ... Toddlers say very little and do a great deal ... With a toddler you cannot explain, you have to show. You cannot send, you have to take. You cannot control with words, you have to use your body.

Penelope Leach

#33. Twenty Inches and Eight pounds of infant can, and undoubtedly sometimes will, reduce two or more intelligent, competent, organized adults to anxious, exhausted incompetent jellies.

Penelope Leach

#34. The air is a question and those who travel upon it travel in questions. When will I find what? Where is who?

Amy Leach

#35. I wanted no other job than to work in newspapers. I was fascinated by the process of collecting information, talking to people and having the story appear in a paper that would be delivered in your letterbox.

Robin Leach

#36. I'm not a politician. I don't pretend to be a politician. I'm an independent.

Robin Leach

#37. Don't follow your mentors; follow your mentors' mentors.

David Leach

#38. If ever you grow weary of concrete, so much concrete conversation, you might take your questions to the forest.

Amy Leach

#39. A tree can be tempted out of its winter dormancy by a few hours of southerly sun - the readiness to believe in spring is stronger than sleep or sanity.

Amy Leach

#40. I am appalled by the notion of cultural wars.

Jim Leach

#41. I am a creator of TV shows. 'Lifestyle' ran for 14 years ... that was pleasurable. We also had 'Runaway' for eight years. We did two years of a show called 'The Start of Something Big', and we did a network series called 'Fame, Fortune and Romance.'

Robin Leach

#42. I'm a big fan of pirates in general.

Mike Leach

#43. Nobody would watch Lifestyles of the Poor and the Unknown.

Robin Leach

#44. To the end of this age. Oh, a thousand years
Will Hardly leach," he thought, "this dust of that fire.

Robinson Jeffers

#45. There are some people who get money just because they've got large families. So if it pays to make large families and earn more money than you would earn out at work, why not have more families, larger families? That's wrong.

Robin Leach

#46. There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.'

Jim Leach

#47. and while staring into my grey eyes with those steel blues,

Kiki Leach

#48. Entomologists use that word 'foul' often when referring to the flavor of a caterpillar. They are rarely more specific than 'foul' or 'tasty.' I expect that is because they are leaving the assessment up to birds, and birds have a very binary approach.

Amy Leach

#49. There are different ways of seeing things. That's art. There is no one interpretation.

Sharon Leach

#50. History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.

Jim Leach

#51. In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.

Robin Leach

#52. Emeril is a one-in-a-million Renaissance man. In 2002, he established his foundation to support children's educational programs to inspire and mentor young people through culinary arts, school food and nutrition.

Robin Leach