Asian Pacific American Quotes

#1. Asian Pacific American Heritage Month provides us all an opportunity to reflect upon this community's many contributions and to celebrate its bright future.

Nydia Velazquez

#2. Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

#3. I'm not sure if I'm going to get into coaching. I'm sure I'll stay in soccer somehow.

Abby Wambach

#4. All around me, the night lived its secret life.

Mary Downing Hahn

#5. I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back.

Felix Baumgartner

#6. I think it is very important to know that we are going to die. Now we refuse the fact of dying. There was once serenity in dying where you had all your children around you in a ceremony and would utter your last words with something like, 'I love the sky'.

Christian Boltanski

#7. Wise travelers always stop short before they come to danger.

Laozi

#8. But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and then the sudden moment: the knife stab, the shell burst, the plummet of the car from a bridge.

Margaret Atwood

#9. If the Palestinians took up arms, went into Israel and killed all the Jews, it'd be alright

Professor Griff

#10. I'm not too big on moisturisers and fancy skin products. I keep my grooming regime nice and simple.

Shaun White

#11. [Y]ou've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology.

Bernadette Jiwa