Ung Quotes

#1. One of the problems we have is children are not in school long enough in the day and during the year.

Michael Gove

#2. From 1975 to 1979 - through execution, starvation, disease, and forced labor - the Khmer Rouge systematically killed an estimated two million Cambodians, almost a fourth of the country's population.

Loung Ung

#3. I'm trying to tell people that I am happy the way I am. But why do people have to call my happiness a failure?

Kim Ung-yong

#4. I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea.

Lu T'ung

#5. Only real risk passes the reality of faith.

C.S. Lewis

#6. In America there's a saying that children should be seen and not heard, .. In Cambodia, children should not be seen nor heard because you would not survive.

Loung Ung

#7. In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means.

Loung Ung

#8. And addressed them thus: I presume you know the difference between front and back, right hand and left hand?

Sun Tzu

#9. You ask me why I dwell
amidst these jade-green hills?
I smile. No words can tell
the stillness in my heart.
Peach blossoms drift streamwater
away deep in mystery.
I live in the other world
one that lies beyond the human.

Li Bai

#10. Fitness is like marriage, you can't cheat and expect it to work.

Anonymous

#11. The Alchemy's secret key is hidden in the laboratory of the man and woman.

Samael Aun Weor

#12. Why are they doing this, Pa?" Kim asks. "Because they are destroyers of things.

Loung Ung

#13. The first victims are always the children.

Loung Ung

#14. We're talking about a revelation here,' Colonel Sanders said, clicking his tongue. 'A revelation leaps over the borders of the everyday. A life without revelation is no life at all. What you need to do is move from reason that observes to reason that acts. that's what critical.'
~page 275

Haruki Murakami

#15. All of our lives are important, even the parts of our past that we have ignored, downplayed, or forgotten. If we open the door to our past, we will discover God there, accompanying us in both happy and sad moments.

James Martin

#16. As I tell people about genocide, I get the opportunity to redeem myself. I've had the chance to do something that's worth me being alive ... The more I tell people, the less the nightmares haunt me.

Loung Ung

#17. I am six years old and instead of celebrating with birthday cakes, I chew on a piece of charcoal.

Loung Ung

#18. I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it.

Loung Ung

#19. Courage is when you dare to be yourself, in whatever ways you want to be - to not be afraid, to just do it.

Loung Ung

#20. Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.

Norton Juster

#21. Voting is not only our right, it is our power. When we vote, we take back our power to choose, to speak up, and to stand with those who support us and each other.

Loung Ung

#22. Living life to the fullest involves living it with your family.

Loung Ung

#23. You are not The Giver of My Heart's Desire." I took a deep breath and smiled. "You are my heart's desire.

Julianne Donaldson

#24. Let's go commit senseless acts of science.

Seanan McGuire

#25. Absolute prediction is completion ... is death!

Frank Herbert