Burmese Quotes

#1. 'Cullum' is Scottish, but I'm nowhere near Scottish. My mother is Burmese, and my father is of German, Jewish, English ancestry.

Jamie Cullum

#2. The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest 'weaknesses'; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.

Robert Baden-Powell

#3. You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of the body results in dance and you become a dancer, not just a human being.

Martha Graham

#4. Old Burmese (now Myanmar) proverb: Burmese proverb: Government is one of the five evils along with fire, floods, thieves and enemies.

Jeffrey Friedland

#5. She uttered a sound rather like an elephant taking its foot out of a mud hole in a Burmese teak forest.

P.G. Wodehouse

#6. My mother was born in Burma, but my grandfather on her side was Indian-Spanish. So I have this quite exotic mix, which is reflected in my earliest memories, in our Wiltshire country kitchen, of gran, and aunts, cooking spicy stewy, casseroley curries, a version of Indian food with a Burmese twist.

Jamie Cullum

#7. If it scares you, I'll shift back." "I just sliced and diced a Burmese python while you were busy growling at the universe, you overgrown housecat." I

J.C. Daniels

#8. I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.

Robert Mueller

#9. We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.

William Hague

#10. I believe that the United States has a moral obligation to stand up for those citizens of the world who cannot stand up for themselves, and I am proud to have authored the bill signed into law today that continues to put significant pressure on the brutal Burmese military junta.

Joseph Crowley

#11. There is an old Burmese proverb: "When it rains, collect water.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#12. We Burmese,' he began, 'are experts at looking for what's not there. It's something you should learn to do too. You must look for what's missing and learn how to find the truth in these absences.

Emma Larkin

#13. I've taken this year to concentrate fully on the promotion of 'The Lady.' This movie has been so meaningful; until we have premiered in every part of the world and encouraged as many people as possible to shine the spotlight on the Burmese people and Daw Suu, I will not have a next project.

Michelle Yeoh

#14. Burmese authors and artists can play the role that artists everywhere play. They help to mold the outlook of a society - not the whole outlook, and they are not the only ones to mold the outlook of society, but they have an important role to play there.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#15. People should be concerned about installing a more sensible, responsible government. What we [the burmese] need is a government that is accountable and transparent, so that the people know what it is doing and can judge for themselves whether or not they like what is being done.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#16. I just sliced and diced a Burmese python while you were busy growling at the universe, fuzz bucket.

J.C. Daniels

#17. After all it was my father who founded the Burmese army and I do have a sense of warmth towards the Burmese army.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#18. I flew north to Chiang Mai, near the Burmese border, and went for a walk round town and within thirty seconds a young man appeared in front of me. 'You wanna fuck my sister?' he asked. I said no. 'You wanna fuck me?' I said no, but

Richard Coles

#19. I had an amazing teacher, who was Burmese, and she was living in Paris at the time, and she is one of very few who doesn't actually receive a credit in the film because she still has family over there.

Michelle Yeoh

#20. I think that learning Burmese has to have been one of the most challenging things that I have had to do for a movie.

Michelle Yeoh

#21. Burmese babies - fat, little, brown little divils, as

Rudyard Kipling

#22. Actually, the Burmese don't refer to her by name. They just call her "The Lady." It's like Voldemort in Harry Potter, "He Who Must Not Be Named.

Guy Delisle

#23. Seriously, the Burmese girls are very pretty.

Rudyard Kipling

#24. It is a depressing business talking to journalist.

Antony Gormley

#25. At first, the question was, Who's to blame? But then, when we learned more, we started thinking, What should we do?

Svetlana Alexievich

#26. My key to victory was that I always went out way too fast. Too fast erases every other race strategy out there. Everyone is hanging on for dear life or they give up.

Gerry Lindgren

#27. Worship is the believer's response of all that they are - mind, emotions, will, body - to what God is and says and does.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#28. Think not of what you did yesterday, but what you can do for yourself today.

Jerry Pate

#29. Brunetti shrugged. They believed him to be a member of the community of scholars...'Community of Scholars," she repeated , "It would make the chickens laugh

Donna Leon

#30. Men are suspicious; prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.

Robert Herrick

#31. Not that he was a fool. No, the book was full of insight. Disturbing insight. The Lord Mistborn advocated gathering the Metalborn who were elderly or terminally ill, then asking them to sacrifice themselves to make these ... spikes, which could in turn be used to create individuals of great power.

Brandon Sanderson

#32. As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to maintain stability on its own ... Then, the Syrian forces will return to their homeland.

Bashar Al-Assad

#33. His "s's" in "something" and "this" were so sharp that it seemed his mouth was a nest of wasps.

Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky

#34. Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold.

Baltasar Gracian

#35. The separation of "church and state" of which America is so proud was established in Islam fourteen centuries ago, when it was decided that no Caliph would have religious authority over the community.

Reza Aslan