Chinese Quotes

As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports. (Eric Hobsbawm)
I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times. View quote
Charles de Lint
When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself. View quote
Deng Xiaoping
Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity. View quote
John F. Kennedy
During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades. View quote
Xi Jinping
You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world. View quote
Bruce Lee
I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. I encouraged the Thai to help the Khmer Rouge. The question was how to help the Cambodian people. Pol Pot was an abomination. We could never support him. But China could. View quote
Zbigniew Brzezinski
The Malays are spiritually inclined, tolerant and easy-going. The non-Malays, and especially the Chinese, are materialistic, aggressive and have an appetite for work. For equality to come about, it is necessary that these strikingly contrasting races adjust to each other. View quote
Mahathir bin Mohamad
The Chinese say it is better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close. (Tori Amos)
A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty-and, by which definition, a philosopher-dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security. View quote
Tom Stoppard
Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun The Japanese dont care to, the Chinese wouldnt dare to Hindus and Argentines sleep firmly from twelve to one, But Englishmen detest a siesta. View quote
Noël Coward
Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite chinese restaurant -- you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage. View quote
David Lee Roth
Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all. View quote
Bob Marley
I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life. View quote
Martha Beck
Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for. View quote
Mary Jo Putney
A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice. View quote
Frances Mayes
Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments. View quote
Amy Chua
It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies. View quote
Iris Chang
China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years. (Li Peng)
The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant. View quote
Robert Fortune
Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin. View quote
Tim Vine
The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development. View quote
William Kirby
Supposing Catherine Lim was writing about me and not the prime minister...She would not dare, right? Because my posture, my response has been such that nobody doubts that if you take me on, I will put on knuckle-dusters and catch you in a cul de sac...Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no other way you can govern a Chinese society. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew