Tohoku Japan Quotes & Sayings

There are worse things, worse than being like us. Look, at least we're alive. — Jonathan Safran Foer

If you have to choose between terrible grief and terrible guilt, I think grief is easier, in the end. — Sharon Bolton

Japan had the big earthquake in 2011, and the Olympics will be a good opportunity to bring strength to the people of the Tohoku region - and also to show everyone around the world that Japan is doing fine again. These are messages we have to convey through the power of sport. — Kohei Uchimura

Did he orchestrate the reclusive redcap's rise to become a predator in public office? Plant the swarm of brownies on the mayor's lawn? Promote adoption of the Dewey decimal system in libraries across the continent? It's the not knowing I find most irksome." "The Dewey decimal system?" "It's gaining popularity. I don't trust it." "We'll — William Ritter

I was always brought up to believe in Him [God], and to behave in certain ways. That is what my parents taught me and I always trust my parents. They have great values. — Usain Bolt

The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness. — Hannah Gadsby

Her own questions about her mother could not have been parried, as she grew up, without the complete shrouding of the past which would have made a painful barrier between their minds. — George Eliot

I'm a first-generation American, so I had friends from several cultures while growing up, including Indian and Iranian friends. — Michael Steger

I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your head is left free. — Alice Oswald

I only socialise with people that I have a lot in common with. — Jenny Eclair