Transcultural Health Quotes & Sayings

Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts. — Anton Chekhov

He became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring, more cruel more ferocious, and more intelligent. He had to become all these things, else he would not have held his own nor survived the hostile environment in which he found himself. — Jack London

Emotional abuse is the sustained, reptitive, inappropriate, emotional responses to the child's felt emotions and their accompanying expressive behaviour. Emotional abuse impedes emotional development. In babies, it also impedes the onset of speech development. It retards the process through which a child acquires the ability to feel and express different emotions appropriately, and eventually, to regulate and control them. It impacts adversely on (a) the child's eductional, social, and cultural development; (b) psychological development; (c) relationships in adulthood; and (d) career prospects. — Kieran O'Hagan

Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else. — Richard Adams

The Church is built on the rock of Peter, and he who eats the Lamb outside this holy dwelling is reprobate ..He who eats the Lamb outside this Apostolic See has no part with God! — Pope Pius IX

You can say 'stop' or 'alto' or use any other word you think will work but I've found that a large bore muzzle pointed at someone's head is pretty much the universal language. — Clint Smith

Don't try to sound cool. Guys do that all the time, and I'm telling you it's a complete turnoff, okay? Just be you. You're cute; live with it. But don't try to sound like James Bond or something, because you're not. - Summer Sumner — Ridley Pearson

In Macbeth a lady is restrained from the murder of a king by his resemblance of her father as he slept. Should not all men be restrained from acts of violence and even of unkindness against their fellow men by observing in them something which resembles the Savior of the World? If nothing else certainly, a human figure? — Benjamin Rush

You don't like presents or anything new, you don't even need a card. You prefer your appreciations to be something of helpfulness, for someone else's regard. — Julie Hebert

Much has been accomplished during the last year in the campaign against terrorism. This struggle will require vigilance, perseverance and sacrifice for many years to come. — Paul Cellucci

The Filipino is worth dying for. — Benigno Aquino Jr.

What is remarkable is the polar opposition between the religiosity of the American public at large and the atheism of the intellectual elite.54 — Richard Dawkins