Chinese Americans Quotes

#1. Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?

Maxine Hong Kingston

#2. There are a lot of things that immigrants, especially Chinese-Americans, want to share with their children, but there are a lot of things they don't want to share.

Anchee Min

#3. [I]t is the reason alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government.

James Madison

#4. What Americans can't face is that one of the reasons that the Russians and the Chinese were so impressed with us during the Cold War was the fact that Nixon and Kissinger went on bombing despite public reaction.

Robert D. Kaplan

#5. To most Americans, a dog is a potential mate. To some Chinese, a dog is potential meat.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#6. This is the secret, THE secret ... De-automatize.

Osho

#7. For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.

Abigail Washburn

#8. So, fortune cookies: invented by the Japanese, popularized by the Chinese, but ultimately consumed by Americans. They are more American than anything else.

Jennifer Lee

#9. Forgiveness leads to a shift in perception. It transforms the hurt into healing.

Iyanla Vanzant

#10. I found Americans arrogant, Germans rude, Britishers selfish, Frenchs desperate, Chinese worried and my own nation stupid.

M.F. Moonzajer

#11. Hillary Clinton: putting big government spending financed by the Chinese ahead of good-paying jobs for middle-class Americans. Is she guilty or not guilty?

Chris Christie

#12. When they looked in the mirror, the American and Chinese women had begun to see each other's reflection. To reach the World Cup final, the Americans had become tightly connected by the ligaments of teamwork, while the Chinese had realized the necessary freedom of individual expression.

Jere Longman

#13. China protects the Chinese, America protects the Americans, I don't see why Europe should not protect the Europeans.

Dominique De Villepin

#14. Americans are much more American than they are Northerners, Southerners, Westerners, or Easterners ... California Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, Alabama Negroes, have more in common than they have apart ... The American identity is an exact and provable thing.

John Steinbeck

#15. I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.

Jennifer Lee

#16. Absolutely the United States should lead in space, for the survival of the United States. It's inspiring for the next generation. If we lose leadership, then we'll be using Chinese capability to inspire Americans.

Buzz Aldrin

#17. Chinese immigrant: Americans make a mere practice of loving justice.

H.W. Brands

#18. Americans consider the United States an exceptional nation; so do the Chinese people think of their Middle Kingdom.

Patrick Mendis

#19. If I can help Americans to understand China, and the Chinese to learn about the United States, even a little, I will feel very rewarded. I

Ji-li Jiang

#20. The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French, and now the Americans.

Noam Chomsky

#21. The thing about happiness, though, is that it never lasts.

Michelle Hodkin

#22. Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.

P. J. O'Rourke

#23. Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

Victoria Abril

#24. She thought she was brave, but she did not have that kind of courage. To face the men who controlled the torturers, the lists, the surveillance, and say: I am going to do the very thing you say I must not do.
And yet they were right.How were things to get better if no one fought?

Geoff Ryman

#25. Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.

Henry Kissinger

#26. Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.

Gary Locke

#27. Americans believe that you can alter people by conversion, and that everybody in the world is a potential American. The Chinese also believe that their values are universal, but they do not believe that you can convert to becoming a Chinese unless you are born into it.

Henry A. Kissinger

#28. All men - whether they go by the name of Americans or Russians or Chinese or British or Malayans or Indians or Africans - have obligations to one another that transcend their obligations to their sovereign societies.

Norman Cousins

#29. Believe me, after the destruction of Chinese nuclear sites by our missiles, there won't be much time for the Americans to choose between the defense of their Chinese allies and peaceful co-existence with us.

Leonid Brezhnev

#30. The easiest way for Americans to make sense of Chinese history is to compare everything to Jewish history. There's an analogue for everything. Torah: Analects. Curly sideburns: long ponytails. Mantou: bagels.

Eddie Huang

#31. Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general.

Martin Yan

#32. We are evolving as one species - not only as Americans, Syrians, Russians, Chinese, and jihadists. We cannot attack one without inflicting forms of violence and destruction upon ourselves. This is our new reality.

Gary Zukav

#33. Chinese restaurants have long been a weekly or monthly ritual for many Americans.

Jennifer Lee

#34. You know, in the WikiLeaks cables, the Chinese discovered that Kevin Rudd was urging the Americans to keep the military option open against them. This is hardly a friendly gesture.

Paul Keating