Tagaru Quotes & Sayings

When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands. — Gavin DeGraw

Success ... Is all about being able to extend love to people ... not in a big capital-letter sense but in the everyday; little by little, task by task, gesture by gesture, word by word — Ralph Fiennes

History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born. — Simone De Beauvoir

In keeping with the American effort to reconcile with Japan, all of them, including those serving life sentences, would soon be paroled. It appears that even Sueharu Kitamura, "the Quack," was set free, in spite of his death sentence. By 1958, every war criminal who had not been executed would be free, and on December 30 of that year, all would be granted amnesty. Sugamo would be torn down, and the epic ordeals of POWs in Japan would fade from the world's memory. — Laura Hillenbrand

Sometimes, you get answers to questions you never thought to ask. And sometimes, the answers make you wish you hadn't asked the questions in the first place. — Zack Stentz

At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with learning. — Hugh Nibley

No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you. — Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life. — Byron Katie

You don't put your life into your books, you find it there. — Alan Bennett

The one who had not ever conceived his own annulment, who had not foreseen the resource of the cord, the bullet, the poison or the sea, is a debased prisoner or a crawling worm on the cosmic carrion. This world can take off us everything, it can forbid us everything, but nobody can't prevent us our self-abolition. — Emil Cioran

he just accepted my dart of irritation, my pinch of meanness. — Harlem Dae

We may be sucking in all sorts of viruses and we really don't know the full range of them. Maybe we've got flu virus inside of us. That's a possibility. Maybe we're part flu. — Carl Zimmer

Slowly, deliberately, the dog turned from the black wolf and walked toward the man. He was a dog, and dogs chose men. — Jim Kjelgaard

I wouldn't say that I'm overly religious, but I have a pretty good relationship with my spiritual being. — Renee O'Connor