Quotes About Cantonese

#1. Sundays are for Dim Sum. While the rest of America goes to church, Sunday School, or NFL games, you can find Chinese people eating Cantonese food.

Eddie Huang

#2. Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects in Chinese.

David Tang

#3. If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.

Prince Philip

#4. I was born in Scotland and have lived there all my life. I speak conversational Cantonese with my dad when I'm at home, and very basic Mandarin.

Katie Leung

#5. There are a lot of colloquialisms in the Cantonese language that can never be represented aptly in Mandarin.

Jia Zhangke

#6. For Cantonese - because there's no standardized pinyin system - I have to have someone read it to me, and then I rewrite the whole script in my own Cantonese pinyin.

Daniel Wu

#7. Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#8. Cantonese will eat anything in the sky but airplanes, anything in the sea but submarines, and anything with four legs but the table.

Amanda Bennett

#9. I speak Cantonese, and I speak Tagalog.

Reggie Lee

#10. I'm about to start working with a singer I met on my last trip: she'll get international exposure, and I'll have a song out in that market sung in Cantonese.

Paul Oakenfold

#11. My Antarctic expedition is just about doable, just feasible and that's what is exciting to me. If I knew it was possible, if I knew I could do it without too much bother, I wouldn't be interested.

Ben Saunders

#12. People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny that he has any outstanding virtue - this is what will endear him to the locals.

Orson Scott Card

#13. The first step in becoming a global citizen is stripping away the preconceptions of how things should be in order to see things for what they are.

Colleen Mariotti

#14. I think that most Americans don't resent people for getting rich. They want to get rich themselves.

Barack Obama

#15. We don't feel constrained by what we did in the past.

Bob Odenkirk

#16. analytically; or even to defend it upon grounds of reason. The keen Dr. South expresses the common sentiment, when he remarks that "as he that denies this fundamental article of the Christian religion may lose his soul, so he that much strives to understand it may lose his wits.

Augustine Of Hippo

#17. The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.

Alice Sebold

#18. Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.

Gail Carson Levine

#19. Can somebody tell me what the fucks going on before I lose my shit all over this fucking room?

J.R. Ward

#20. I'm as old as the moon and the stars, and as young as the trees and the lakes. My style comes from looking at what came before me, and from visiting a lot of places.

Afrika Bambaataa

#21. I wish you would grow to the understanding that you choose heterosexuality.

Marilyn Frye

#22. Game, set, match. Ever, and always, my equal.

A.G. Howard

#23. I opposed Clinton's budget deal in 1997 because he brought in $115 billion cut in Medicare that created greater pressure for providers not to participate.

Dave Obey

#24. What city has given the world more in terms of American culture than New Orleans? There is none. Not New York. Not L.A. Not Chicago. Not anywhere, in the sense that African American music has gone around the world twenty times over, and it's continuing to evolve. It is our greatest cultural export.

David Simon

#25. What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious any longer than the rod is behind them.

Martin Luther