Quotes About Chinese Immigration

#1. I prefer a positive view of freedom, drawing on another tradition of political thinking that goes all the way back to the ancient Greek polis.

David Blunkett

#2. There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they're accumulating. They can't escape that.

Pete Domenici

#3. There is no problem that is not actually a gift.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#4. The feeling of death is not as peaceful as they make it sound in movies and books. It was frightening and empty ... I never want to feel it again.

Shannon A. Thompson

#5. Studies of immigration show that this resistance to heart disease is not just something in African or Chinese genes. When people move from low-risk to high-risk areas, disease rates skyrocket as they adopt Western diets and lifestyles.

Michael Greger

#6. My mother is not smiling; Chinese do not smile for photographs. Their faces command relatives in foreign lands - 'Send money' - and prosperity for ever - 'Put food in front of this picture.' My mother does not understand Chinese- American snapshots. 'What are you laughing at?' she asks. (1983: 58)

Maxine Hong Kingston

#7. Since I won't let the critics seal my fate, they keep hollering I'm full of hate. But they don't really hurt me none, 'cause I'm doing good and having fun.

Muhammad Ali

#8. I believe firmly in mystery and manners.

Flannery O'Connor

#9. A beautiful blossom is a fleeting thing It stays for a moment and then takes wing: With special rays we catch it ere flight So all may enjoy the beautiful sight.

Albert Richards

#10. There are times when one friend requires the blind faith of another ...

Libba Bray

#11. Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.

Kate Atkinson