Kalaupapa Quotes & Sayings

He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret. — A.W. Tozer

Celebrate for a nanosecond. — Michael Dell

I'm real happy. I've been lucky in love, and I've got a wonderful kid now, and things have been going well. — James Mercer

A farmer who neglects to sow ordinary seeds only loses the crop, whereas anyone who forgets to sow seeds of a crop that has already been harvested twelve months before risks disturbing the entire fabric of causality, not to mention acute embarrassment. — Terry Pratchett

All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets. — Eleanor Roosevelt

-You have what they call the complete package, Adders.
-What do you know about my package?
-No that package, you idiot! You are the complete package! I wasn't talking about what's in your trousers! — Lisa J. Hobman

By now the streets of Kalaupapa were filled with people racing for high ground - sick people crying
"Tsunami!" as nature played yet another mean trick on them, God's last best joke at their expense. It was,
after all, April Fool's Day. — Alan Brennert

All men are potential rapists. — Nandita Das

Hope had stolen into his life just as he was growing comfortable with despair. — David Leavitt

When I accept myself, I am freed from the burden of needing you to accept me. — Steve Maraboli

Love, marriage, divorce, infidelity ... life was the same here as anywhere else, wasn't? She realized now wrong she'd been; the pali wasn't a headstone and Kalaupapa wasn't a grave. It was a community like any other, bound by ties deeper than most, and people here went to their deaths as people did anywhere: with great reluctance, dragging the messy jumble of their lives behind them. — Alan Brennert

It slowly dawned on the volunteers that they were not patients but subjects; separated from their friends and community in Kalaupapa, they felt like outcasts among outcasts. — Alan Brennert

We hear often of the distress of the negro servants, on the loss of a kind master; and with good reason, for no creature on God's earth is left more utterly unprotected and desolate than the slave in these circumstances. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

The experience of the '90s, whether it's the '94 peso crisis or the '97 crisis in Asia, the '98 crisis, even the 2001 crisis, is that we recovered pretty readily. There wasn't great consequence. — Myron Scholes

Rachel found herself wishing that the week would never end-that her father could stay here forever-but knew he couldn't. If there was one thing she had learned in her brief time at Kalaupapa, it was that all things end. — Alan Brennert

This is Shaun Mason activating security protocol Campbell. The bridge is out, the trees are coming, and I'm pretty sure my hand is evil. Now gimme some sugar, baby. — Mira Grant

Copywriting is a design muse, it carves a beautiful masterpiece in an imaginative way. — Sharen Song

Child stars have nothing. They have no choice. — Corey Feldman

SMILE - IT NO BROKE YOUR FACE!
-on a stone in Kalaupapa — Alan Brennert