China Quotes, Quotations & Sayings - Page 5
Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows – and china.
Charles Dickens
If GE’s strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
Jack Welch
My father said he was going to write to the Jinzhou City Party Committee asking for permission to ‘talk about love’…My mother supposed it was a bit like asking permission from the head of the family…the Communist Party was the new patriarch.
Jung Chang
Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labor, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.
Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
Like spring, I treat my comrades warmly.
Like summer, I am full of ardor for my revolutionary work.
I eliminate my individualism as an autumn gale sweeps away fallen leaves
And to the class enemy, I am cruel and ruthless like harsh winter.
Lei Feng
My grandmother’s feet had been bound when she was two years old. Her mother…first wound a piece of white cloth about twenty feet long round her feet, bending all the toes except the big toe inward and under the sole. Then she placed a large stone on top to crush the arch.
Jung Chang
On the road to Mandalay, / Where the flyin’-fishes play, / An’ the dawn comes up like thunder outer China ‘crost the Bay!
Rudyard Kipling
They fired first above the heads and then at the heads. They were laughing wildly as if it was not serious.
Anonymous
We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
Mao Tse-Tung
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