Quotes About Murakam

#1. We must be what we wish our children to be. They will form their characters from ours.

John S.C. Abbott

#2. Then he closed his eyes and he began to dream.

Maggie Stiefvater

#3. We still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting.

Richard Hell

#4. And Ronan was everything that was left: molten eyes and a smile made for war.

Maggie Stiefvater

#5. From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain.

Haruki Murakami

#6. Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced.

Henry W. Kendall

#8. Music, especially as an adolescent, helps to build identity because that's when people start developing a sense of self. You can kind of tell based on what music a person listens to what kind of person they'll be pretty much for the rest of their life.

Aloe Blacc

#9. I'm not a political Christian; for the most part I allow people even their vain, earthly rights. And I certainly don't see anti-Christians as bad or evil (as if they actually have the power to pose any kind of threat against God Almighty), but rather complete idiots I was commanded to love.

Criss Jami