Asian Parent Quotes & Sayings

Feigheit wird manchmal belohnt. — Benoite Groult

Once again, my dad knew something I didn't. Looking back, I realize it wasn't just I was Asian. I was a loud-mounthed, brash, broken Asian who had no respect for authority in any form, wether it was a parent, teacher, or country. Not only was I not white, to many people I wasn't Asian either. (148) — Eddie Huang

Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a part of it and lack perspective, and because it presents considerable variation from our pattern of historical change. — Carroll Quigley

In American culture you leave home at 18. In the Asian culture, your parents don't really want you to leave home. So my parents just thought I was going to be one of those kids. I was like, "I'm never going to make a living at whatever I do." I just liked pretty things. — Jason Wu

Every day with you is an adventure I never wanted. Like swimming naked through shards of glass. — Brian Clevinger

To be happy, the only thing you need is to have happy thoughts. — Debasish Mridha

I like violence because I like looking at it and I like understanding emotional and physical violence and how they work with one another ... It's operating in all these levels of hopefully - Oedipus is one of my favorite stories, that's like falling down a well when you read that - so that would be the hope, that each thing causes the next. — Kimberly Peirce

Spiders evidently as surprised by the weather as the rest of us: their webs were still everywhere - little silken laundry lines with perfect snowflakes hung out in rows to dry. — Leslie Land

They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work. — Casey Stengel

When you don't have your work clearly defined, there can never be any finish point. — Matt Perman

My children grew up with one Western parent. My husband doesn't believe in raising his voice with the kids and we don't spank. They were really raised in a half-Asian family. — Amy Chua

In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies. — William Bennett

I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression. — Lou Holtz

The day you hear someone call me captain will be the day I buy a boat. — Guy Lafleur

Jesus' 'lack of moral principles.' He sat at meat with publicans and sinners, he consorted with harlots. Did he do this to obtain their votes? Or did he think that, perhaps, he could convert them by such 'appeasement'? Or was his humanity rich and deep enough to make contact, even in them, with that in human nature which is common to all men, indestructible, and upon which the future is built? — Dag Hammarskjold

Many people take a very low view of politicians, but that is exactly how they conduct their social interactions daily — Bangambiki Habyarimana