Top 28 Kublai Quotes
#1. No one, wise Kublai, knows better than you that the city must never be confused with the words that describe it.
Italo Calvino
#2. ...
KUBLAI: We have proved that if we were here, we would not be.
POLO: And here, in fact, we are.
Italo Calvino
#3. It always circled back around to Marco Polo and Kublai Khan. That always fascinated me because so few people make the connection between the two.
John Fusco
#4. This story began with a single, starving family, hunted and alone on the plains of Mongolia - and ends with Kublai Khan ruling an empire larger than that of Alexander the Great or Julius Caesar. Over just three generations, that is simply the greatest rags-to-riches tale in human history.
Conn Iggulden
#5. If you put together all the Christians in the world, with their Emperors and their Kings, the whole of these Christians, - aye, and throw in the Saracens to boot, - would not have such power, or be able to do so much as this Kublai, who is Lord of all the Tartars in the world.
Marco Polo
#6. Kublai noticed this uncommon perception that Marco Polo has, with the idea to explain and talk about his country so vividly that he can see it.
Benedict Wong
#7. You have a powerful army, Kublai, but the best force is one you do not have to use.
Conn Iggulden
#8. He is no fool, Kublai. He understands far better than you realize. The khan's vast armies cannot return to being herdsmen, not anymore. He is riding the tiger now, my son. He dare not climb down.
Conn Iggulden
#9. My word is iron," Kublai said to the guards, as Meng Guang was led away. "Your people will come to know this, in time.
Conn Iggulden
#10. In 2007, I did a horseback trip across part of central Mongolia with my 13-year-old son - we encountered Marco Polo at all these historical places where Mongolian nomads would reference his accounts and his relationship with Kublai Khan.
John Fusco
#11. I feel like we are reintroducing historical figures, with the explorer Marco Polo and the grandson of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, the ruler of the Mongol empire, the trading place that everybody wanted to get involved in.
Benedict Wong
#12. Perhaps, Kublai thought, the empire is nothing but a zodiac of the mind's phantasms.
Italo Calvino
#13. Good shepherds love their sheep and spare no effort when leading them to green pastures and clear water.
Alexander Strauch
#14. He fought it, and he damn near beat it! We
J.K. Rowling
#15. Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.
Kublai Khan
#16. I have heard that one can conquer the empire on horseback, but one cannot govern it on horseback.
Kublai Khan
#17. The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.
Roger Scruton
#18. a girl in her twenties who might have been pretty had she refrained from drawing her eyebrows on with a marker.
Tosca Lee
#20. It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
Denis Diderot
#21. Nor does the being hungry prove that we have bread.
Matthew Arnold
#22. I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh.
Alberto Sordi
#23. But which is the stone that supports the bridge?
Kublai Khan
#24. If wells are constructed right and operated right, hydraulic fracturing will not cause a problem. ... Our natural gas supplies would plummet precipitously without hydraulic fracturing.
Scott Anderson
#26. And rule two," I said, shaking my head slowly. "Don't ever discuss hymen regeneration over lunch. Or . . . like, ever.
Christina Lauren
#27. Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world. Skin a chimpanzee, and it would take an autopsy to prove he was not a theologian.
H.L. Mencken
#28. Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
Doris Lessing
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