Japanese Sayings And Quotes

by allinspiration.com

“On average, the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese are more similar to each other and are different from Australians, Israelis and the Swedes, who in turn are similar to each other and are different from Nigerians, Kenyans, and Jamaicans.”
– J Philippe Rushton

“Heaven is an American salary, a Chinese cook, an English house, and a Japanese wife. Hell is defined as having a Chinese salary, an English cook, a Japanese house, and an American wife.”
– James H Kabbler III

“I’ve got lots of weird illustrations of me from Japanese fans. I also got a dead moth. Which actually might be more of a threat than a present.”
– Jamie Bell

“I play around with my Japanese Garden. Since I’m half way to today I need to start pruning trees and sharpening plants like an old fart.”
– Jason Bateman

“If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?”
– Jim Rogers

“I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.”
– John C Danforth

“I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.”
– John C Danforth

“The way I see it is that all the ol’ guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn’t be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn’t be Chinese or Japanese.”
– John McGahern

“The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions.”
– Joseph Rotblat

“I got two marriage proposals from Japan after the Mighty Ducks movies came out. From Japanese girls. Yeah. The nation of Japan. They wrote me letters and expressed their desire to have my hand in holy matrimony. It’s bizarre.”
– Joshua Jackson

“It’s almost Armageddon if the Japanese and Chinese don’t buy our debt. I don’t know where we could get the money. I think we’ve let ourselves get in a terrible situation and I think we ought to try and get out of it.”
– Julian Robertso

“Did you know that the word tsunami, which is now being used worldwide, is a Japanese word? This is indicative of the extent to which Japan has been subject to frequent tsunami disasters in the past.”
– Junichiro Koizumi

“My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.”
– Karl Lagerfeld

“As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life – in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.”
– Kenzaburo Oe

“The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.”
– Kenzaburo Oe

“To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.”
– Lane Kirkland

“When a Japanese manufacturer was asked by his North American counterpart, What is the best language in which to do business? the man responded: My customer’s language”
– Leonard I Sweet

“Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat.”
– Lexa Doig

“I just fell in love with his music. I thought Yanni was Japanese. I didn’t have any idea what a Yanni was. I just thought I was in love with a Japanese man who wrote beautiful music.”
– Linda Evans

“Smoke trees that make me look Japanese.”
– Mac Dre

“There are all kinds of letters and protests that come from, not surprisingly, Japanese fishermen, the fishermen’s wives; there are student groups, all different types of people; the protest against the Americans’ use of the Pacific for nuclear testing.”
– Martha Smith

“As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn’t matter if it’s Chinese, Japanese, anything.”
– Martin Yan

“I wanted Kimi to be a Japanese record with a Japanese title. I wanted it to be for them. They appreciate things on a different level, and take their art very seriously – that’s special if you’re an artist.”
– Matthew Sweet

“My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over years to apologize.”
– Mike Honda

“Alabama farmers want a chance to complete fairly in Japan, but they can’t if the Japanese won’t let us in.”
– Mike Rogers

“If you examine this, I think that you will find that it’s the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.”
– Minoru Yamasaki

“Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.”
– Minoru Yamasaki

“Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.”
– Natan Sharansky

“I think that American people really know how to pursue fun, they really know how to have a good time. Japanese are somewhat more reserved than Americans, so I’m jealous.”
– Nobuo Uematsu

“Unless it’s done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element.”
– Norman McLaren

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