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China Quotes and Sayings

Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections.
George Montgomery

Them that has china plates themsel’s is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others.
James Matthew Barrie

An ambitious horse will never return to its old stable.
Chinese Proverb

India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.
Hu Shih

China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years.
Li Peng

Whoever stands for ‘one China’ will get our support. We can have talks with them, and our talks will cover anything.
Zhu Rongji

China also has moved away from its original status of purely producing basic, what you call, consumer commodities and Chinese companies are moving beyond China to various parts of the world.
Sellapan Ramanathan

This is gutting us. We have a week and a half left of work and we are like delicate china speeding toward a brick wall. Sounds fun, huh?
Jennifer Aniston

In its report, the Cox Committee concludes that China is using stolen U.S. design information to speed up its deployment of a new nuclear missile force.
Charles Foster Bass

The People’s Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.
Barbara Amiel

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials.
Chinese Proverb

If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it’s got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.
Dan Glickman

Ultimately, China may use force to push for unification with Taiwan, a scenario we all must work to prevent.
Michael K. Simpson

China has always maintained that all countries, big or small, rich or poor, strong or weak, are equal members of the international community and they should stand and speak in the world as such.
Li Peng

What are the implications of a China that may be on nuclear parity with the United States?
Charles Foster Bass

We can soar to heaven, and pierce the earth, because our Great Leader Chairman Mao is our supreme commander.
Red Guard slogan

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Chinese Proverb

Today, over half of China’s undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America’s undergraduates pursue these schools.
Cathy McMorris

I do not think any reasonable person can doubt that in India, China and Japan, if the knowledge of birth control existed, the birthrate would fall very rapidly.
Bertrand Russell

China has not lived up to any other trade agreements over the last decade… They don’t have any compliance or enforcement.
David Bonior

The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings.
Qin Shi Huangdi

The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.
William Kirby

History shows that anything conducive to our national stability is good.
Jiang Zemin

In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.
Ike Turner

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.
Chou En Lai

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.
Michael Ledeen

Not for all the tea in China.
Proverb

China is still very poor. Without our own operating system we can’t do anything, we’re completely at the mercy of Microsoft.

Even if they’re functioning out of ignorance, they are still participating and must be suppressed. In China, even one million people can be considered a small sum.
Deng Xiaoping

Reform is China’s second revolution.
Deng Xiaoping

Friendship is like a expensive china. It can be fixed when it is broken, but the crack will remain.
Anonymous

I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don’t care.
Reggie Jackson

The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.
Lin Yutang

Since China has a population of 1.1 billion, it won’t feel lonely even if it becomes the only socialist country.
Li Peng

China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.
Charles de Gaulle

Every Communist must grasp the truth, ‘Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.’
Mao Tse-Tung

India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.
Hu Shih

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China’s behavior overnight.
Madeleine Albright

The destiny of Hong Kong is now the same as the destiny of China. There is no escaping.
T. L. Tsim

China will be the answer to Japan’s problems.
Carlos Ghosn

He that can see a louse as far away as China is unconscious of an elephant on his nose.
Malaysian Proverb

Women’s hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.
William Somerset Maugham

I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team.
Richard M. Nixon

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won’t let them into our country.
Pearl S. Buck

China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.
Howard Schultz

China and India will, separately and together, unleash an explosion of demand.
Mukesh Ambani

I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
W. H. Auden

The Chinese government knows that what I am teaching is good and that I am teaching people to have high moral values.
Li Hongzhi Quote

China is one of the world’s greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations.
Fred Thompson

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
Chinese Proverb

I wouldn’t mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.
Philip Larkin

The infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian cane.
Joseph Addison

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