Amy Tan Mother Tongue Quotes

#1. If I die tomorrow, next year or whenever it might be, I'll know I've had a great life.

Bill Gutman

#2. As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry.

Adrienne Rich

#3. Pickpockets either work alone or in pairs, or what is called a mob.

Harry Houdini

#4. It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified.

Thomas Jefferson

#5. In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy.

G.H. Hardy

#6. The United States have a coffle of four millions of slaves. They are determined to keep them in this condition; and Massachusettsis one of the confederated overseers to prevent their escape.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. America certainly has made extraordinary progress. The collective unconscious of the nation has certainly shifted as a result of the civil rights movement and the developments in the '70s and '80s. We have witnessed a great expansion of the black middle class.

Michael Eric Dyson

#8. Rich is he who thinks he is rich and poor is he who thinks he is poor.

Emile Coue

#9. People there's a new sheriff in town. One of the great running backs in line of Pittsburgh Steelers [and] his name is Le'Veon Bell. He's on his way people.

LaDainian Tomlinson

#10. Do not jump into reaction mode at the first appearance of negative energy. Just breathe, and relax.

Neale Donald Walsch

#11. I think crying over spilt milk and being all moody and sulky is really bratty behavior. You shouldn't do it, because it's going to drag you and everyone else around you down.

Jerry Hall