Chinese Quotes

For example, in Malay, there are pronunciations that are similar to Chinese.

Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.

To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.

The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.

I prefer the Chinese method of eating. You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle.

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.

When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.

On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.

The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas.

I don't care what political party is controlling China right now. All I know is we are all Chinese.

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

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.

The overall strength of Chinese culture and its international influence is not commensurate with China's international status. The international culture of the West is strong while we are weak.

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same, as they come from the same throats and lungs.

On top of my to-do list in preparing for Beijing is 'On China' by Henry Kissinger, who has had firsthand experience with every top Chinese leader since Mao, so his insights are valuable and his access is perhaps unrivaled.

In the East there is a gap between the top of a wall and underside of a roof; it acts as a screen, and the Chinese were able to use it as they wished.

When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.

Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.

A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life.

Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.

This is our bottom line, and the will of 1.25 billion Chinese people.

The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization.

From the Chinese perspective, Korea ranks about third or fourth in terms of trading volume and about third in terms of investment.

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.

I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!

Unless we rise to the challenge, instead of American youth being able to live the American dream, the Chinese will fulfill their dream of overtaking America.