Japanese Quotes
Sad Quotes about Japanese

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

Before you can forgive others,
you must be a person whose forgiveness matters.
Before you can have gratitude for your life,
you must believe that your life has value.
Before your choices have value,
you must feel that you yourself have value.
Before you can dream a great dream for your future,
you have to believe that your future matters.
Before you can build positive habits of resolve and commitment,
before you can begin to live into the Japanese proverb,
"Fall seven times, stand up eight,"
you must believe that your life matters.
Before you can celebrate your life, you must Honor it.
And, before you can feel unity with,
and Honor toward, Spirit and all creation,
you must Honor yourself to feel worthy of that unity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
- Walter F. Mondale

When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.
- Phil Collins

I do not see how the Japanese can hold out against this united front.
- Henry L. Stimson

V-J Day, or Victory in Japan Day, marks the date of
the Japanese surrender that ended fighting in the Pacific.
- Doc Hastings

Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change
their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh.
This way, others' expectations can be avoided.
- Tina Weymouth

Five years ago, people were crying and feeling the
Japanese were about to take over the Earth.
I don't hear that kind of talk anymore.
- Jack Kilby

I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese
behind a fence in World War II.
I remember being bewildered about that.
- Phil Donahue

My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title
of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country.
- Wolfman Jack

I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl.
No, I don't think I can, really.
- Chiaki Kuriyama

Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese
press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony.
- Howard Stringer

I shall ask to see whether they want me in dress clothes or in Japanese.
- Sessue Hayakawa

That is one reason so many of the Japanese pictures are not good,
they cannot spare all the footage necessary for that bow,
which is repeated over and over again.
- Sessue Hayakawa

Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position,
and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese
War became one of long duration.
- Hideki Tojo

It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese
government to try to get me out of trouble.
And I really appreciate the Japanese government for
all they have done for me.
- Robert Jenkins

The Japanese version comes with a translation,
but that's different from the lyrics,
so people could look things up and find a translation
of their own if they're interested.
- Utada Hikaru

I cook everything.
I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking.
I do lots of Japanese noodles.
- Ted Allen

Clearly, this Sino-Japanese War of more than four years
was a considerable burden on Japan's national power
and an obstacle to the maintenance of peace in the Pacific.
- Tojo Hideki

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree -
they bear no fruit.
- Francis Marion

It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must
feel like to be someone else,
whether it's an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man.
- Curtis Sittenfeld

Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session
and instead study my Japanese books in the open.
- Gustav Klimt

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

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

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

How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to,
you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do
you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh,
yes.
- Jack Kilby

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and
its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.
- Stephen Gardiner

The Japanese say, If the flower is to be beautiful,
it must be cultivated.
- Lester Cole

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

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

Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time
the words of Native people from the West.
- Dennis Banks

The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation
in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation.
- Akihito

The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level.
It's always been on a high level.
- Billy Higgins

In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness,
industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.
- Paul Getty

It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus,
or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not
so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be.
- Hu Shih

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed
nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.
- Stephen Gardiner

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

The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent
about the introduction of opium,
and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited.
- Townsend Harris

Well, dojo is a traditional Japanese word for training hall.
- Joseph Jarman

In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
- Jack Adams

The Japanese do not fear God.
They only fear bombs.
- Jerome Cady

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

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

The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.
- David Rockefeller

Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time...
I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.
- Curtis Lemay

And $18 million in three Japanese banks,
completely false.
That I have two factories in Panama,
also completely false.
This is part of the counter campaign of some people.
- Alberto Fujimori

Our task force put to sea in early January 1942,
to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands,
but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.
- Jack Adams

Once you understand the foundations of cooking -
whatever kind you like,
whether it's French or Italian or Japanese -
you really don't need a cookbook anymore.
- Thomas Keller

The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest
thing and when they come to London they head for my
shops as part of what they want to find in Britain.
- Vivienne Westwood

In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.
- Stephen Gardiner

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art.
They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.
- David Rockefeller

The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings.
That's the Japanese character.
They kill their own emotions.
- Ichiro Suzuki

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture,
art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO,
which I still play.
- Philip Warren Anderson

You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios.
- Gordon Sinclair

On my first days here I did not start work immediately but,
as planned, I took it easy for a few days -
flicked through books,
studied Japanese art a little.
- Gustav Klimt

My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.
- Karl Lagerfeld

Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an
interpreter to communicate with most of the crew.
- John Foster

I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity
in practice but generally I do the same things.
- Arsene Wenger

The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity,
it was non-existent.
- Pat Morita

The President of the United States thinks that for
the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.
- Townsend Harris

They do not depend upon mere legends and myths.
They are not predicated on the false conception that
the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people
are superior to other races.
- Emperor Hirohito

Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.
- Minoru Yamasaki

Technological things, that Germans and Japanese would get real excited about.
- John Badham

My observations of Japanese naval fighting men,
their abilities and equipment led me to believe that
they gave a better account of themselves than we did.
- Jack Adams

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them
indistinguishable from rudeness.
- Paul Theroux

Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
- Jack Adams

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

It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's
arm off and have red water hoses for veins,
spraying blood everywhere.
- Quentin Tarantino

We'll look at the japanese launch as a model and aspire
to have things go as well as they did over there.
- Trip Hawkins

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