Best Hmong Quotes

#1. For some reason, I kept seeing it - it trembled and silkily glowed on my damp retina - a radiant child of twelve, sitting on a threshold, "pinging" pebbles at an empty can.

Vladimir Nabokov

#2. We'd better go," I say. "It's time for you to make Hmong babies."
Toua pulls free from my grasp. "You little
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"Go. Further the great Flower Clan. The mountainous homeland will sing from your victorious loins."
"You're disgusting!

Rose Christo

#3. Timothy Dunnigan: The kinds of metaphorical language that we use to describe the Hmong say far more about us, and our attachment to our own frame of reference, than they do about the Hmong.

Anne Fadiman

#4. We all make mistakes. We must keep finding the right paths.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Coldness settles again in my stomach. I do not want a nice Hmong girl. I want a nice Egyptian boy who teaches me about colors and makes me appreciate poetry. I want the nice Egyptian boy who stops in the middle of the day to say Thank you, God. For everything.

Rose Christo

#6. Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.

Ed Asner

#7. One of the basic human rights he takes away from you is the right to be angry with him.

Lundy Bancroft

#8. Implicit trust in God's provision should be a natural result if a person has trusted in Christ for salvation. But sadly it isn't always.

Various

#9. The Hmong never had any interest in ruling over the Chinese or anyone else; they wanted merely to be left alone, which, as their later history was also to illustrate, may be the most difficult request any minority can make of a majority culture.

Anne Fadiman

#10. You know Anne,' he said quietly, 'when I am with a Hmong or a French or an American person, I am always the one who laughs last at a joke. I am the chameleon animal. You can place me anyplace, and I will survive, but I will not belong. I must tell you that I do not really belong anywhere.

Anne Fadiman

#11. God's timing is perfect, so don't waste time worrying. Your

Lacey Sturm

#12. The kinds of metaphorical language that we use to describe the Hmong say far more about us, and our attachment to our own frame of reference, than they do about the Hmong. So much for the Perambulating Postbox Theory.

Anne Fadiman

#13. You can't be half-reaper. That's like saying a postman is half-human and half-postman."
"Or a lawyer is half-demon and half-human?

Darynda Jones