Joy Luck Club Quotes

#1. All Americans knew was 'The Joy Luck Club' and children of dry cleaners trying to assimilate. The Asia that I was seeing was a world of people who are incredibly sophisticated, and I wanted to represent that side.

Kevin Kwan

#2. But our world at the end of the twentieth century has so much destruction without Christian artists so emphasizing the minor theme in the total body of their work that they add to the poorness and destruction of our generation.

Francis A. Schaeffer

#3. Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.

Amy Tan

#4. By accepting God's love for us, we fall in love with Him, and only then do we have the fuel we need to obey.

Donald Miller

#5. Africa is never the same to anyone who leaves it and returns again. It is not a land of change, but it is a land of moods and its moods are numberless.

Beryl Markham

#6. America is a living idea. It isn't only the tenets of its founding, but also the terms of its future. Every day, we make America. Seeking to preserve and enshrine one vision of this country from one period of its past robs it of what makes it magical: its infinite possibility for adjustment.

Charles M. Blow

#7. I have always known a thing before it happens.

Amy Tan

#8. To look good in the water you have to pick the right swimsuit. I own close to 500.

Amanda Beard

#9. And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction.

Amy Tan

#10. I am ashamed she is ashamed. Because she is my daughter and I am proud of her, and I am her mother but she is not proud of me.

Amy Tan

#11. And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood.

Amy Tan

#12. The shit's gonna splatter. Start buggin' yo.

Jeaniene Frost

#13. It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.

Amy Tan

#14. The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum. This bird, boasted the market vendor, was once a duck that stretched its neck in hopes of becoming a goose, and now look!
it is too beautiful to eat.

Amy Tan