Top 18 The Joy Luck Club Quotes

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

Amy Tan

#2. In order to welcome redemption, one must first embrace the utter hopelessness of failure. For how can a man look for rescue unless he knows he is truly lost?

Stephen R. Lawhead

#3. Nothing can help my comedy.

Gilbert Gottfried

#4. It is now up to us to see that we embark on the next stage leading to political unity, which I think is the consequence of economic unity, so that Europe can in the future also play a political role on the international stage, leading even as far as a common defence policy.

Jacques Santer

#5. No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. As an actor, it's your job to find the way to play a character. I think you can latch on to some things that might have happened.

Justin Timberlake

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

Amy Tan

#8. 40 Words for Sorrow is brilliant-one of the finest crime novels I've ever read. Giles Blunt writes with uncommon grace, style and compassion and he plots like a demon. This book has it all-unforgettable characters, beautiful language, throat-constricting suspense.

Jonathan Kellerman

#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. But I've never felt for anyone, what I feel for you. And I've never felt from anyone, what I am feeling from you now.

S.C. Stephens

#11. I would probably never be able to do anything interesting or special like Edward, Alice and Jasper could do. Maybe I would just love Edward more than anyone in the history of the world had ever loved anyone else.

Stephenie Meyer

#12. 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

#13. 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

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

Amy Tan

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. Some visualize the Pistols era in shades of black and white. It wasn't. Actually, the colors I envision are neon or army dirt green with fluorescent pink
anything that would annoy.

John Lydon

#18. Most of the Peacekeepers turn a blind eye to the few of us who hunt because they're as hungry as we are for fresh meat as anyone. In fact, they're among our best customers.

Suzanne Collins

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