Quotes About China

More than a billion people in the world today claim intellectual inheritance from ancient Greece. More than two billion are the heirs of ancient Chinese traditions of thought.

I stood there in the whirling summer,My hand capped a withered heart,And thought of China and of Greece,Of Alexander in his tent;Of Montaigne in his tower,Of Saint Theresa in her wild lament.

Never in his life had Edward been cradled like a baby. Abilene had not done it. Nor had Nellie. And most certainly, Bull had not. It was a singular sensation to be held so gently and yet so fiercely, to be stared down at with so much love. Edward felt the whole of his china body flood with warmth. (page 128)

It was a singular sensation to be held so gently and yet so fiercely, to be stared down at with so much love. Edward felt the whole of his china body flood with warmth

He had china arms and china legs, china paws and a china head, a china torso and a china nose.

And Edward was surprised to discover that he was listening. Before, when Abilene talked to him, everything has seemed so boring, so pointless. But now, the stories Nellie told struck him as the most important thing in the world and he listened as if his life depended on what she said. It made him wonder if some of the mush from the ocean floor had gotten inside his china head and damaged him somehow.

Edward felt a sharp pain somewhere deep inside his china chest. For the first time, his heart called out to him.

to my father's amazement, was an ancient but clearly recognizable painting of Marco Polo, who must have visited Huai'an during his thirteenth-century travels about China. The priest asked my father to donate a picture of Jesus for his collection, and, after thinking about it, Daddy did.

My father loved peanuts and bought quantities of them to take along, only to find to his chagrin that peanuts were one of China's leading exports. They also went to Chinatown, feeling that since they were headed for China, they should try Chinese food. The only thing on the menu that they recognized was chicken, but when it came the bones were black, so they were afraid to eat it.

China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. .

China has an almost infinite need for energy, and frankly, the world would be better off if much of that need goes in the direction of wind power.

The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily.

Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.

China's limited military power is for the sake of preserving national sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

The reality is that China is a much stronger power today, because the economic dimension has been added to the military and strategic one.

I think China is set up to surpass the US on the even more critical industry of green power.

The rapid rise of the People's Republic of China as a military and economic power is challenging the status quo.

All countries have problems with China's economic power.

I think the Chinese do have visions of being a great power. And I think it's legitimate. And I don't see that that's a danger to us.

When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone.

The Chinese government thinks China and the U.S. should develop a constructive relationship of cooperation.

Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China.

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

Beginning in 1968, China also sent 110,000 troops to Laos to fight the war.