Eli Lapp [Book is having trouble milking a cow]
You never had your hands on a teat before.
Not one this big.
[Long pause; then Eli Lapp roars with laughter]
Played by Jan Rubeš 
Witness (1985) · 10 quotes
Witness (1985) · 10 quotes
3rd most-quoted character in Witness (1985): in 4 of its 10 quotes
A line from Eli LappWhat you take into your hand, you take into your heart.
Scenes with Eli Lapp
3 scenes Eli Lapp Eli Lapp This gun of the hand is for the taking of human life. We believe it is wrong to take a life. That is only for God. Many times wars have come and people have said to us: you must fight, you must kill, it is the only way to preserve the good. But Samuel, there's never only one way. Remember that. Would you kill another man?
Samuel Lapp
I would only kill the bad man.
Eli Lapp Only the bad man. I see. And you know these bad men by sight? You are able to look into their hearts and see this badness?
Samuel Lapp
I can see what they do. I have seen it.
Eli Lapp And having seen you become one of them? Don't you understand? What you take into your hands, you take into your heart. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing. Go and finish your chores now.
Samuel Lapp
Yes Groflvater.
He's leaving, isn't he?
Eli Lapp Tomorrow morning. He'll need his city clothes.
But why? What does he have to go back to?
Eli Lapp He's going back to his world, where he belongs. He knows it, and you know it, too.