Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Fortune

I have, however, often seen Chinese gardeners selecting suckers and plants for this purpose from the other plants which are growing in their garden.

Grace Lin

When I was younger, I was very princessy. I always wanted to be blond-haired and blue-eyed. This was before Mulan, so I was very upset about all the Cinderellas. I always tried to imagine that maybe Snow White was Chinese since she had black hair.

Gene Luen Yang

Figuring out a way to balance the Boxer story with the Chinese Christians was difficult.

Bianca Lawson

My dad and I used to do movie marathons when I was a kid at the Chinese Theatre, and I just remember thinking, 'One day I want to have a movie here' And then later on, when 'Save The Last Dance' premiered there, that was definitely a full circle moment.

Rebecca MacKinnon

There are a lot of people that think the Internet is going to bring information and democracy and pluralism in China just by existing.

Alan Greenspan

Chinese productivity is the highest in the world but the way they do it is by borrowing the technology from abroad, either by joint ventures or other means.

Clayton Christensen

I don't have my finger on the pulse of corruption in China, but I think most people on the ground would say that as China was emerging from communism, it was a very regulated society, and therefore, it was very corrupt. But as they have deregulated the economy, there just aren't as many opportunities for people to be corrupt.

Howard Rheingold

The Chinese government tried to keep a lid on the SARS crisis, but there were 160 million text messages in three days sent by Chinese citizens. These are early indications that it's going to be difficult for people who used to have control over the news to maintain that level of control.

Scott Hamilton

Without them (the China order), Airbus would have come in at the 905 planes (net) estimated by analysts and industry observers.

Li Zhaoxing

Yet Japanese leaders are worshipping these war criminals that harmed so many Chinese people. What are they thinking? Are they even thinking that they are hurting the feelings of so many people of Asia?

Peter Costello

The progress is gradual and I think it will be some time before China has a floating currency as we know it.

The problem is that the textile issue between China and the United States is mixed with many other factors.

Chiang Kai-shek

If we are to give the people of China complete self-government we must first solve the problem of livelihood for all, and give real freedom to the races within China. If the foundations of democracy are secure, then true equality can be achieved.

China and India are feeding their people for the first time in human history due to free markets, and the Left knows that, and it gets them nervous.

Andrea Hirata

It's hard to be a minority. People look at you a different way, like you don't belong, and I don't think many people realize just how difficult it is to live as a minority. Where I come from, we learn to tolerate one another. Whether one is of Chinese descent or Malay descent, what matters is we're part of the same country, the same world.

This will have a big impact on Chinese banks.

There is rapid development going on, ... we would like the Chinese to move even faster.

There is only one China in the world and the government of the People's Republic of China is the sole legitimate government of the whole of China.

Byron Dorgan

This relates to a massive number of American jobs and American enterprise being shipped overseas in circumstances of trade that are fundamentally unfair because that is the way China wants it.

This reflects the importance of the upcoming vote on China trade,

We see the potential for a production vehicle with tremendous flexibility, which is a real alternative to Chinese hamster ovaries, the current industry standard. We have set ourselves a target of 25% of all new proteins and monoclonal antibodies. For anything in development and reaching the market between 2015 and 2020, we want 25% of the production platform to be PER.C6.

We see it as a clear example of persecution extending from China to U.S. soil.

We're the sole remaining superpower, the only country that's sent people to the moon. If the Chinese sent people to the moon they'd take us down a notch.

Abigail Washburn

Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.

I don't care what political party is controlling China right now. All I know is we are all Chinese.

While the US trade deficit showed an unexpected improvement in February, any lasting market enthusiasm was firmly misplaced. Energy prices continue to rise while China remains resistant to further currency flexibility.

We are expanding to eight million tons next year from six million this year to meet demand, which just keeps getting stronger and stronger as China manufactures more.

Richard Branson

We are effectively in an emergency situation. But we are friends with the Chinese people, and this is a sporting event. We have no choice but to go over China, and we would be enormously grateful if they let us in.

Everywhere the Chinese go in the developing world, they go with a lot of development money.

Falling demand in Europe and Japan weakened the overall growth even as demand from China remained strong.

But the other factor is that we have indications that Chinese demand for platinum is recovering despite prices being stable between $845 and $880.

Peter V. Brett

The ward designs were co-created by myself and Lauren K. Cannon. She read how they were described in 'The Warded Man,' and we had long discussions about what sources to draw from for the symbols, drawing inspiration from Arabic, Japanese, Chinese and Sanskrit.

Confucius

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.