Chinese Quotes - Page 32

• We (the Chinese) eat food for its texture, the elastic or crisp effect it has on our teeth, as well as for fragrance, flavor and color.

  Lin Yutang

  Food, Color, Teeth

  Yutang Lin (1939). “My country and my people”

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• You get a series of super-typhoons into Shanghai and millions of people die. Does the population there lose faith in Chinese government? Does China start to fissure? I'd prefer to deal with a rising, dominant China any day.

  David Titley

  Government, People, Rising

  "'Climate Change War' Is Not a Metaphor". Interview with Eric Holthaus, www.slate.com. April 18, 2014.

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• New York is a meeting place for every race in the world, but the Chinese, Armenians, Russians, and Germans remain foreigners. So does everyone except the blacks. There is no doubt but that the blacks exercise great influence in North America, and, no matter what anyone says, they are the most delicate, spiritual element in that world.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Spiritual, New York, Exercise

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• The Chinese people have stood up.

  Mao Zedong

  People, Stood Up, China

  Zedong Mao “Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung: The period of the socialist revolution and socialist construction (I)”

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• My mother imparted her daily truths so she could help my older brothers and me rise above our circumstances. We lived in San Francisco's Chinatown. Like most of the other Chinese children who played in the back alleys of restaurants and curio shops, I didn't think we were poor. My bowl was always full, three five-course meals every day, beginning with a soup full of mysterious things I didn't want to know the names of.

  Amy Tan

  Family, Mother, Brother

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.89, Penguin

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• I was raised the Chinese way: I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, to eat my own bitterness. And even though I taught my daughter the opposite, still she came out the same way! Maybe it is because she was born to me and she was born a girl. And I was born to my mother and I was born a girl. All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way.

  Amy Tan

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

  "Fictional character: An-Mei". "The Joy Luck Club", www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• Wise guy, he not go against wind. In Chinese we say, Come from South, blow with wind -- poom! -- North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen.

  Amy Tan

  Wise, Blow, Wind

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.89, Penguin

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• Well, you have children so you know: little children little troubles, big children, big troubles - it's a saying in Yiddish. Maybe the Chinese said it too.

  Grace Paley

  Children, Littles, Trouble

  Grace Paley (2014). “The Collected Stories”, p.357, Macmillan

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• Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian custom of loading women's legs with pounds of heavy brass wire are extreme examples, but all over the world similar stratagems have been employed to make sure that once you have caught a woman she cannot run away, and even if she stays around she cannot keep up with you. ... Literally as well as figuratively modern women's shoes are what keeps Samantha from running as fast as Sammy.

  Alison Lurie

  Girl, Running, Class

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• Seeking the Cave is part travelogue, part literary history, and part spiritual journey. James Lenfestey is a lively and entertaining tour guide. Modest, funny, curious, and wide open to the world, he gives us perceptive glimpses of Chinese culture, ancient to contemporary, and into what it means to be a poet, both now and twelve centuries ago. The account of his quest to find Han Shan's cave is a delight from beginning to end.

  Chase Twichell

  Spiritual, Mean, Journey

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• The mystery school continued throughout the greater Egyptian civilization, which was the second age of humankind and later on into the third age of humankind when the Indian, Chinese, Japanese and Tibetan high cultures flourished

  Frederick Lenz

  School, Egyptian Civilization, Age

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• The Chinese are a knowing people; and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age; to prevent their sons from seeing their own future.

  Christina Stead

  Religious, Son, Knowing

  Christina Stead (2016). “The Man Who Loved Children”, p.147, Head of Zeus

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• Chinese people today have strong demand for culture, but we need effective supply, and China needs innovative cultural products.

  Wang Jianlin

  Strong, People, Needs

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• The Chinese, whom it might be well to disparage less and imitate more, seem almost the only people among whom learning and merit have the ascendency, and wealth is not the standard of estimation.

  William Benton Clulow

  Learning, People, Might

  William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.434

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• As the rising sun melts thinly frozen ice, so the Japanese Army is overcoming Chinese troops.

  Shunroku Hata

  Army, Ice, Overcoming

  "Objective: Limited", Time Magazine, December 20, 1943.

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• I investigated reported Japanese atrocities committed by the Japanese Army in Nanking and elsewhere. Verbal accounts of reliable eyewitnesses and letters from individuals whose credibility is beyond question afford convincing proof that the Japanese Army behaved and is continuing to behave in a fashion reminiscent of Attila and his Huns. Not less than 300,000 Chinese civilians were slaughtered, many in cold blood.

  Koki Hirota

  Fashion, Army, Blood

  "Nanking 1937: Memory and Healing". Book by Robert Sabella, p. 56, 2002.

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• How can the reality of 600 million Chinese be ignored?

  Janio Quadros

  Reality, Ignored, Millions

  "One Man's Cup of Coffee," Time Magazine, June 30, 1961.

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• May your rice never burn,' is the New Year's greeting of the Chinese. 'May it never be gummy,' is ours.

  Irma S. Rombauer

  New Year, Years, Cooking

  Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker (1975). “Joy of Cooking”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

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• With regard to electric vehicles, I am all for them because most of the incremental electricity needed to run those vehicles will come from gas-fired electric generation. However, I do not believe it is wise for America to substitute dependence on foreign oil for dependence on Chinese batteries.

  Aubrey McClendon

  Wise, Running, Believe

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• A careful blending of sarcasm, irony, and teasing, bickering has its own distinctive cadence and rhythm and is as difficult to master as French, Spanish, or any elective second language. Like Chinese, the fine points of bickering can be discerned in the subtle rise and fall of the voice. If not practiced properly, bickering can be mistaken for its less sophisticated counterpart: whining.

  Linda Sunshine

  Fall, Sarcasm, Voice

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• Frivolous thinking is due to foreign thought. Japan must no longer let the impudence of the white peoples go unpunished. It is the duty of Japan to fulfill her natural destiny, to cause China to respect the Japanese, to expel Chinese influence from Manchuria, and to follow the way of imperial destiny.

  Sadao Araki

  Destiny, Thinking, Japan

  "World War II almanac" by Robert Goralski (p. 9), 1981.

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• 90% of toys are made in china, which technically makes the chinese elves

  Sean Lock

  Toys, Made, China

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• A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting history, calligraphy, and martial arts into one.

  Donnie Yen

  Art, World, Calligraphy

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. August 26, 2004.

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• My food demons are Chinese food, sugar, butter.

  Kirstie Alley

  Sugar, Demon, Chinese Food

  "Kirstie Alley: 'I ate a lot of butter'" by Alex Fletcher, www.digitalspy.com. May 6, 2009.

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• My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.

  Eric Liu

  War, Air, Grandfather

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