Mother Tongue Amy Tan Important Quotes

#1. No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics.

Franz Boas

#2. I do want to be a spokesman for clean cycling - I believe somebody has to stand up for the current generation. I'm happy to do that.

Chris Froome

#3. The war, the American Civil War of 1861-1865, would never have been possible without the sinister influence of the Jesuits.

Abraham Lincoln

#4. Even if we die, I'm sure our souls will always find each other.

Visa

#5. Future's the only flower worth tending in this earth, where I sow my words daily: and you know, these good trees bear fruit round the year, discreetly, moving along the waterways and four seasons of the faithful sun.

Alamgir Hashmi

#6. You don't play a game or color a picture with a child to show your superiority. Rather, you choose to limit yourself so as to facilitate and honor that relationship.

Wm. Paul Young

#7. Thought = creation. If these thoughts are attached to powerful emotions (good or bad) that speeds the creation

Rhonda Byrne

#8. When you're on a sleeper at night, take your pocketbook and put it in a sock under your pillow. That way, the next morning you won't forget your pocketbook cause you'll be looking for your sock.

Ping Bodie

#9. I urge you to be teachers so that you can join with children as the co-collaborators in a plot to build a little place of ecstasy and poetry and gentle joy

Jonathan Kozol

#10. These two were together, but in reality far apart. They had left each other without leaving each other.

Henri Barbusse

#11. You write the facts as you see them, and there isn't a lull with a lot of description. No wonder people like to write about murder mysteries and dead bodies!

Lily King