Hirahara Quotes & Sayings

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms — John Steinbeck

not important, trifling — William Strunk Jr.

Never assume that someone likes you by their sweetNess.Sometimes you are an option when they are bored — Prince Simus

At the time I was writing 'Weedflower,' my friend Naomi Hirahara was writing a book about Japanese-American flower farmers. She knew quite a few elderly farmers and put me in touch with four or five of them who had been in camps during WWII. Some, like my father, were reluctant to talk about their experiences. — Cynthia Kadohata

That's my life approach to most of life most of the time:to ignore it.I have to in order to stay sane.Until something like this happens,and I realize what I've gotten myself into. — John David Anderson

Oh, we were a degree or two hotter than improper. — Peter Carey

The merit of poetry, in its wildest forms, still consists in its truth-truth conveyed to the understanding, not directly by the words, but circuitously by means of imaginative associations, which serve as its conductors. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Science has an uncomfortable way of pushing human beings from center stage. In our prescientific stories, humans began as the focal point of Nature, living on an Earth that was the center of the universe. As the origins of the Earth and of mankind were investigated more carefully, it became clear that Nature had other interests beyond people, and the Earth was less central than previously hoped. Humankind was just one branch of the great family of life, and the Earth is a smallish planet orbiting an unexceptional sun quite far out on one arm of a run-of-the-mill spiral galaxy. — Seth Lloyd

The accumulation of capital involves the the expansion of value over time. — David Harvey

With every breath, I breathe in so much of inspiration. I feel if there is one thing as free and as important as oxygen, it's inspiration. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

For a large organization to be effective, it must be simple. — Jack Welch

Whatever's between us is that kind of new. — Courtney Summers

You're a "chibi", and nobody notices you." Halfway good-looking people, according to Ricki, blended into the crowd. They never left any kind of strong impression. They were bland and anonymous. Ugly people, on the other hand, with fleshy noses or thin lips, always attracted attention. — Naomi Hirahara