Quotes About Japanese Gardens

#1. I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.

Ma Jian

#2. Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy hands.

Alex Berenson

#3. In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.

Stephen Gardiner

#4. Hurrah!" cried one voice (need it be said it was that of J. T. Maston). "Distance does not exist!" And overcome by the energy of his movements, he nearly fell from the platform to the ground. He just escaped a severe fall, which would have proved to him that distance was by no means an empty name.

Jules Verne

#5. Tracy looked at me with affectionate pity. "You feel alive. Regular people feel dead."
"I have new batteries in.

Cate Tiernan

#6. I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.

V.S. Naipaul

#7. You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#8. Living is a kind of skill. The calm and wisdom of old age are achieved over time.

Atul Gawande

#9. He who knows what best to omit is the best teacher.

Otto Neurath

#10. The only condition a library asks its users to honor is to do justice to their own imagination, their own curiosity and their own thirst for knowledge, and in the process, to achieve their own independence of mind and spirit.

Vartan Gregorian

#11. As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit.

Robert Fortune

#12. The wave is the same as the ocean, though it is not the whole ocean. So each wave of creation is a part of the eternal Ocean of Spirit. The Ocean can exist without the waves, but the waves cannot exist without the Ocean.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#13. A coal miner from Chongjin whom I met in 2004 in China told me, People are not stupid. Everybody thinks our own government is to blame for our terrible situation. We all know we think that and we all know that everybody else thinks that. We don't need to talk about it.

Barbara Demick