Stranger

Famous quotes containing the word stranger:

    And the Stranger will depart and return to the desert.
    O my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger,
    Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    I have been a stranger in a strange land.
    Bible: Hebrew Exodus, 2:22.

    Moses, referring to his time in Egypt.

    The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals. Yet nowhere in a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
    John Berger (b. 1926)