Chinese Dream Quotes

#1. The Chinese dream is an American dream embedded in a Confucian cocoon.

Patrick Mendis

#2. I remember looking around at the girls, the men, the drugs and the money, and wondering how long this utopia could last: the Chinese dream, in its second, prodigal generation.

Susie Gordon

#3. Remind me again why I put up with you?
'Cause you sold me your soul for five bucks, and now you must submit to my will?' I still had the sheet of paper, written in his untidy fifth-grade scrawl. Gideon David Belmonte. One soul.

Bethany Frenette

#4. The Chinese are planning a manned mission to the moon sometime after 2020, and subsequently, to Mars. The U.S. has abandoned that dream.

David Ignatius

#5. The problem with 'the crown jewel of Chinese literature' [Dream of the Red Chamber] is that it has two thousand pages and an equal number of characters, and the hero is an effeminate ass who should have either been spanked or decapitated, both ends being equally objectionable.

Barry Hughart

#6. People there only dream that it is China, because if you are Chinese you can never let go of China in your mind.

Amy Tan

#7. My looks are changing obviously, so I fuss like any woman if I look tired or whatever, I put on weight and blah, blah. But some part of me is very relaxed with it all.

Jacqueline Bisset

#8. The way to win our heart back is to venture again, to risk giving, receiving and trusting again, and of course to risk getting hurt again, but deciding to forgive and to no longer use the hurt or fear to keep ourselves in prison.

Nick Williams

#9. Books were a dependable pleasure. I read more then than I ever was able to read again until now when I am too old to work much and am mostly alone.

Wendell Berry

#10. Shelves full of books are all around me. Opening the different volumes I take a look, and find the pages covered with writings in unknown scripts - tadpole traces, bird feet markings, twisted branches. And in my dream I am able to read them all, to make sense of everything despite its difficulty.

Jonathan D. Spence

#11. I believe that the world's stability and prosperity will depend on how well China and the West understand each other, trust each other, and learn from each other.

Helen H. Wang

#12. There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

G.K. Chesterton

#13. Unless we rise to the challenge, instead of American youth being able to live the American dream, the Chinese will fulfill their dream of overtaking America.

Mark Kennedy

#14. A civilization is always judged in its decline.

Melvin B. Tolson

#15. When I read 'Dream of Red Mansions,' I was really struck by the fact that it was built differently from a lot of genre works. Specifically, a lot of the events that should have taken centre-stage - wars, social upheavals - were seen entirely through the eyes of the women of a Chinese household.

Aliette De Bodard

#16. I have a dream to provide every Chinese, especially children, sufficient milk each day.

Wen Jiabao

#17. Science Magazine wouldn't in a dream think about publishing a single Chinese term. Chinese words and brands must be suppressed, crushed even, hold back at all costs.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#18. Sometimes life seems a dark tunnel with no light at the end, but if you just keep moving forward, you will end up in a better place.

Jeffrey Fry

#19. You can't spell 'developer' without 'devel.'

John Mayer