Patch Adams
Patch Adams
Hunter Doherty "Patch" Adamsis an American physician, comedian, social activist, clown, and author. He founded the Gesundheit! Institute in 1971. Each year he organizes a group of volunteers from around the world to travel to various countries where they dress as clowns in an effort to bring humor to orphans, patients, and other people...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth28 May 1945
CountryUnited States of America
sleep departed debt
Death. To die. To expire. To pass on. To perish. To peg out. To push up daisies. To push up posies. To become extinct. Curtains, deceased, Demised, departed And defunct. Dead as a doornail. Dead as a herring. Dead as a mutton. Dead as nits. The last breath. Paying a debt to nature. The big sleep. God's way of saying, "Slow down."
doctors justice people
I am a Doctor, but above all else I consider myself an activist for peace, justice and care for all people.
kindness nasty century
Kindness Day? Kindness Day? Do you suppose if we were kind and enthusiastic for centuries uninterruptedly, that someone would create 'Nasty, Indifferent Day'?
war mean goal
What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal.
helping-others giving people
We have to end the capitalist system. We have to make love our value. You are rich when you love and you are rich when you are giving away your time and what you have to help other people.
laughter people essentials
People crave laughter as if it were an essential amino acid.
justice peace-justice
I am funny, but I'm not about funny... I'm about peace & justice.
suffering physicians roles
The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.
giving grows contact
The value of friendship and just deep human contact grows out of giving.
dream joy accomplish
Jump for joy as we accomplish the dreams we adore.
compassion doctors cures
If you actually are a doctor and admitted it, you'd say, 'I don't cure a huge percentage, I don't have a 50 percent cure rate .. (but) I can have a 100 percent compassion rate,'.
groups helping humans
For most of human history, we lived communally in groups, and it was part of the security and nature of groups to help each other and groom each other.
community world individual
One cannot separate the health of the individual from the health of the community, from the health of the world.
justice people world
I want to live in a world where people become famous because of their work for peace and justice and care. I want the famous to be inspiring; their lives an example of what every human being has it in them to do - act from love!