Scrofula Quotes & Sayings

We need to remake the Democratic party. We need to remake America. — Al Gore

You can't shoot an idea. — Thomas E. Dewey

A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it. — Florence Nightingale

It is steadily forgotten that health is a diathesis as much as is scrofula or syphilis and that each of these is a mode of growth. — Clifford Allbutt

Kate faced the crowd. They were just eyes and teeth to her, just spit and voices. It was a moment, even, before they became people: a man with one blind eye, another whose neck was thick with lumps and weeping wounds of scrofula. The poorest of the market.
At Kate's feet, Drina. Her scarf and shirt were torn open. — Erin Bow

Be happy, but be happy through piety. — Madame De Stael

The thoughts you choose to think and believe right now are creating your future. These thoughts form your experiences, tomorrow, next week, and next year. — Louise Hay

Have you seen a person recently so delicious-looking that, were you and this person to be scrambling for ice-cream change with your arms in the sofa and your faces laid on the cushions looking at each other as you felt for coins and the ice-cream truck dinged on by and your hands in there felt only the lint of the sofa scrofula and your faces were fairly close across a distance of that knobby nylon terrain, you might feel compelled to slide you face toward this delicious-looking person's and kiss him or her - have you seen anyone like this recently? — Padgett Powell

There's a simple solution to our traffic problems. We'll have business build the roads, and government build the cars. — Will Rogers

Swinburne, by the way, when a very young man, had gone to Walter Savage Landor, then a very old man, and been given the poet's blessing he asked for; and Landor when a child had been patted on the head by Dr Samuel Johnson; and Johnson when a child had been taken to London to be touched by Queen Anne for scrofula, the King's evil; and Queen Anne when a child ... — Robert Graves

I love you only because it's you the one I love;
I hate you deeply, and hating you
Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you
Is that I do not see you but love you blindly. — Pablo Neruda

People are sophisticated viewers, as evidenced by the risks that are taken in cable television, and I think network has to do the same thing. — Todd Lieberman

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living. — Toni Cade Bambara