Okinawa Quotes

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  • Hoping to see karate included in the universal physical education taught in our public schools, I set about revising the kata so as to make them as simple as possible. Times change, the world changes, and obviously the martial arts must change too. The karate that high school students practice today is not the same karate that was practiced even as recently as ten years ago [this book was written in 1956], and it is a long way indeed from the karate I learned when I was a child in Okinawa.

    Art   Children   Book  
  • I asked God "Why, why, why?" I turned my face away and wished that I were imagining it all. I had tasted the bitterest essence of war, the sight of helpless comrades being slaughtered, and it filled me with disgust.

    War   Sight   Essence  
    Eugene B Sledge (2010). “With the Old Breed: The World War Two Pacific Classic”, p.61, Random House
  • I was a runner and a soccer player living in Okinawa, Japan and I didn't have recruiters coming in to recruit me for sports. So how many kids out there and planning to go to college are super stud athletes but don't have a chance because they come from some podunk town and no one comes to watch them?

    Soccer   Sports   Athlete  
  • I would say that my great political awakening was really born on Okinawa, reading Albert Camus: the "Neither Victims nor Executioners" essay and The Rebel. I was an eighteen-year-old kid. I hated myself. I hated my life. I thought nobody wanted me.

    Reading   Kids   Years  
    Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.
  • The ongoing dispute over the relocation of U.S. Marines on Okinawa should be quickly settled. This isn't just an issue for the U.S. and Japan. It has regional implications.

    Marine   Japan   Issues  
  • Okinawa, one of the longest-lived and healthiest populations in the world, practice a principle they call hara hachi bu: Eat until you are 80 percent full.

    Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.151, Penguin
  • If they can fight and die on Okinawa, Guadalcanal (and) in the South Pacific, they can play ball in America.

    Fighting   America   Play  
  • I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away.

  • I got interested in Zen when I was a teenage beatnik on the streets of San Francisco. And it was my interest in Zen, in part, that got me into the Marine Corps, because that was a ticket to Asia. So I spent a couple of years on Okinawa and began reading and thinking about how I wanted to go about conducting my life.

    Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.
  • I don't think America needs 28,000 men on Okinawa. I don't think we need an army in Germany. What's it for, to protect Germans against the Russians, to protect the French against the Germans? It's just there by inertia, that's my reading of it. I don't think we need an army in South Korea because North Korea is absolutely no threat to South Korea.

    Reading   Army   Men  
  • The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people.

    Japan   People   Desire  
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