Chinese Quotes - page 6

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language. (Eric Allin Cornell)
As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake. View quote
Eric Allin Cornell
But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government. View quote
Ezra Stiles
I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology. View quote
Francesca Annis
The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win. View quote
George Wald
Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese. View quote
Gene Tierney
You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction. View quote
Helmut Jahn
Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air. View quote
Helmut Jahn
By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people. View quote
Henry Charles Carey
The release of 'Chinese Democracy' marks a historic moment in rock n' roll. View quote
Irving Azoff
Chinese growth will either be strong or very strong. They have a voracious demand for energy that will only continue to grow. What they're doing... is looking at all forms of energy. They're going ahead very strongly with coal, nuclear, oil, natural gas. (John S. Watson)
The Chinese banking system is built on quicksand and that's the one thing a lot of people don't realize. Everybody seems to think it is a free and clear open checkbook. It's not. The banking system in China is extremely fragile. View quote
James Chanos
Wild Swans' showed me there are Chinese traditions that still affect my life. For example, it's not that women are inferior, exactly, but my dad and my brother are the most important men in my life and I would do anything for them. I feel like I should be the one cooking and looking after them. View quote
Katie Leung
I am grateful to the motherland and the people. I feel honored to fly into space on behalf of hundreds of millions of female Chinese citizens. View quote
Liu Yang
My father is Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino; my mother is half-Irish and half-Japanese; Greek last name; born in Hawaii, raised in Germany. View quote
Mark Dacascos
I am proud to be Chinese, and I do not tolerate any traitor. View quote
Alex Chiu
I don't care what political party is controlling China right now. All I know is we are all Chinese. View quote
Alex Chiu
Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general. View quote
Martin Yan
As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything. View quote
Martin Yan
The problem with a lot of Chinese is that they put up divisions between Taiwanese, Hong Kong natives, mainlanders. We are never united. I really hope that the Chinese can be more united. View quote
Martin Yan
So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out. (Martin Yan)
Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication. View quote
Maya Lin
When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family. View quote
Maya Lin
As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay. View quote
Michael Chang
Until the Chinese decide to compete fairly it will be up to us to do what we can to further protect our manufacturing base, and ensure we keep the good paying jobs we already have. View quote
Mike Rogers