Tadayoshi Makino Quotes & Sayings

I'm talking about the soul-crushing drudgery of day-to-day parenthood that we're too embarrassed to talk about. The boredom, the stress, the nagging dissatisfaction, and the sense of personal failure that parents feel when raising a kid isn't all it's cracked up to be. Perhaps worst of all is the guilt that so many women buy into because they're too ashamed to admit that despite the love they have for their kids, child rearing can be a tedious and thankless undertaking. — Jessica Valenti

[T]he main evil of the present democratic institutions of the united states does not raise, as is often asserted in Europe, from their weakness, but from their irresistible strength. I am not so much alarmed at the excessive liberty which reigns in that country as at the inadequate securities which one finds there against tyranny. — Alexis De Tocqueville

As a child, I remember being in the pool at this pool party and having to get out of the pool to watch Nixon resign. My first idea of a president was of a guy who was a crook. — Kelly Reichardt

[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice ... Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without a conscience a man may never be said to grow old. This is an age of very old young men. — Hesketh Pearson

The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something. — Gene Simmons

We need to put in place an economic system of governance for the euro-zone. — Francois Fillon

We had right now, and that's all I truly needed. That's all we were ever really guaranteed. — Megan Squires

You have a rare fire within you. The power to change things. The courage to act in the service of something greater than yourself. — Moira Young

had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet. — Douglas Adams

Rather than caving in to protests, let us know who is in charge by setting boundaries. — Auliq Ice

A hospital is a good place to set various dilemmas. — Aminatta Forna

Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning. — Charles Spurgeon

The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not? — Nathan Myhrvold

12 Arnold Grove, Merseyside. — J.P. Walker