Kyushu Quotes

#1. My parents came from the Kyushu Island in the Southern part of Japan to find work in Tokyo. So we could only afford to live downtown, in a low-income area. It was just by the river, and whenever a typhoon came around, we were under water up to, like, here. That's the kind of place we lived in.

Takashi Murakami

#2. Three big islands, Kyushu, Shikoku, and Honshu? And thousands of little ones. There's another island far to the north - some say it's the mainland - called Hokkaido, but only hairy natives

James Clavell

#3. Long as there's a sun that sets, Primroses will have their glory; Long as there are violets, They will have a place in story: There's a flower that shall be mine, 'Tis the little Celandine.

William Wordsworth

#4. It is only when one is under extreme duress that one's true character is revealed.

Christopher Earle

#5. Some of us learned long ago not to pee in the pool in which we swim., seeing the error in thinking that wealth-at-any-cost could buy you a new pool.

Karla Black

#6. Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here.

Ray Bradbury

#7. The map was one thing and the land quite another.

George R R Martin

#8. 025 GOD, you are my God. I celebrate you. I praise you.

Eugene H. Peterson

#9. New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were a national security liability.

Liam Fox

#10. I am basically an eternal existence
momentarily and perhaps needlessly
terrified by one half of itself..

Alan W. Watts

#11. The ripple of today's lie is tomorrow's wave and next year's flood.

Max Lucado

#12. I was a horrible limo driver: I ran out of gas with passengers in the back and I used to get lost on a regular basis.

John Slattery

#13. Waldo nodded and looked at the policeman's face. Somehow the water that was dripping from the bill of his cap made him appear almost human. Nah, Waldo thought, it would take a lot more than water to wash that look off.

Donald Jeffries

#14. You must invest out of passion! You must invest out of desire! The same way you invent. The same way you fall in love! If you are too careful, you end up with something timid and unimportant. Something you don't mind losing. And when was that ever something you wanted to fight for?

Sharon Shinn

#15. It's going to take a while because for the last 500 years patriarchal societies have been devoted to controlling reproduction and that means controlling women. So we got into this masculine/feminine, dominant/passive paradigm, and it's going to take a while to get out.

Gloria Steinem