Vietnamese Refugee Quotes

#1. As a Vietnamese refugee who became an American writer, I can tell you that you matter, that your sadness matters, the story of how you survived and triumphed matters. For every story that belongs to you, in time, belongs to America.

Andrew Lam

#2. For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. I'm not at all the sort of woman who kisses strange dragons when she comes across them.

Katie MacAlister

#4. It's funny to see the people connect with Fast & Furious the way they do. I had no clue, I didn't get it. And now, more I get it and I see it.

Paul Walker

#5. Society ... is tolerant of crimes, and long suffering with dullness, but it shows no mercy to those who are different from other people.

Geraldine Jewsbury

#6. Sex is ... perfectly natural. It's something that's pleasurable. It's enjoyable and it enhances a relationship. So why don't we learn as much as we can about it and become comfortable with ourselves as sexual human beings because we are all sexual?

Sue Johanson

#7. I mean my life was a combination of fascination with other people, with politics, and with policy, and the impact of government decisions on people's lives and the life of our nation and the life of the world.

William J. Clinton

#8. An idyllic childhood is probably illusion.

Martha Grimes

#9. Oggie sat facing us in a threadbare blazer and pajama bottoms, as if he'd been expecting company
just not pants-worthy company
...

Ransom Riggs

#10. Giving the banks free interest loans is like the government subsidizing the banks. That's crazy!

Kenneth Eade

#11. I wake up every morning feeling like I have the best life.

Danny Wood

#12. I've always found it difficult to start with a definite idea, but if I start with a pond that's being drained because of a diesel fuel leak and a cow named Hortense and some blackbirds flying over and a woman in the distance waving, then I might get somewhere.

Bobbie Ann Mason

#13. Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.

Bobby Knight