Haruki Murakami Quotes

And when you come back to Japan next summer, let's have that date or whatever you want to call it. We can go to the zoo or the botanical garden or the aquarium, and then we'll have the most politically correct and scrumptious omelets we can find.

Haruki Murakami

• Garden
• Japan
• Politically Correct
• Aquariums
• Omelets

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• You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Good
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Peace
  • Garden
  • Movement

• Granny beads are what they're called when a grandma works the garden all day - you always see them - they have a handkerchief around their neck with a lot of dust on them, and then the sweat will go down and make these black beads of sweat and dirt around their neck. And that's what they call granny beads.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Black
  • Day
  • Garden

• So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.

  

  Samuel Foote
  • Time
  • Garden
  • Married

• The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Help
  • Garden
  • Gardening

• There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Real
  • End
  • Garden

• When I saw Bryan Singer's 'Usual Suspects,' I knew how it was going to end because I'd seen 'Scary Movie.' Which is not the preferred order of things, but that's how it is because my childhood was 'Home Alone,' 'Matilda,' 'Batman Returns,' 'Jumanji,' 'Secret Garden,' 'Jack,' 'Mrs. Doubtfire,' 'Titanic.' Only family films from the '90s.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Family
  • Home
  • Movie

• Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Work
  • Garden
  • Plant

• Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Garden

• The garden is a raging sea, The hurricane is snarling;Oh, happy you and happy me!Isn't the lightning darling?

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Happy
  • Sea
  • Garden

• Commute with me, my Love, and be merry;How vain in the City to dwellWhen apple-trees blow in Dobbs' FerryAnd lilacs adorn New Rochelle!White Plains is the Garden of AllahAnd Pelham's the Pearl of the Sea;There's bliss in the name of Valhalla -Oh, fly to the Suburbs with me!

  

  Arthur Guiterman
  • City
  • Sea
  • Fly

• The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.

  

  Alfred Austin
  • Heart
  • Nature
  • Soul

• In the garden of tabloid delight, there is always a clean towel and another song.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Song
  • Garden

• When you're doing exactly what you want to do, it's not tiring. You've been planting these seeds, and finally, you have a full garden in bloom; you're like, 'Oh, I just want to smell the flowers and play among the flowers all day.' That's what I'm doing. I'm playing among the flowers.

  

  Colman Domingo
  • Garden

• The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I'm in the city.

  

  Carolina Herrera
  • Time
  • City
  • Painting

• To try to convey literally what the Garden of Eden was like is meaningless. What matters is its symbolic function.

  

  David Farr
  • Garden

• I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with cooking from the organic garden, and her message. I took my daughter and granddaughter there, and they were really charming, it was great.

  

  Jacques Pepin
  • Great
  • House
  • Daughter

• In Berkeley, we built the garden and a kitchen classroom. We've been working on it for 12 years. We've learned a lot from it. If kids grow it and cook it, they eat it.

  

  Alice Waters
  • Kids
  • Garden
  • Kitchen

• I was born in a lovely white house with a garden.

  

  Judy Garland
  • House
  • Born
  • Garden

• We will do everything in our power to protect our allies, South Korea and Japan, including installing even more missile defense.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Power
  • Japan
  • Allies

• The sense of impending disaster hung over the garden like a chandelier.

  

  Antal Szerb
  • Garden
  • Disaster
  • Hung

• We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.

  

  Mary Gordon

• Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging.

  

  Han Suyin
  • History
  • Single
  • Flow

• And when you come back to Japan next summer, let's have that date or whatever you want to call it. We can go to the zoo or the botanical garden or the aquarium, and then we'll have the most politically correct and scrumptious omelets we can find.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Garden
  • Japan
  • Politically Correct