Chinese Canadian Quotes & Sayings

I am the first prime minister of this country of neither English nor French origin. So I determined to bring about a Canadian citizenship that knew no hyphenated consideration ... I'm very happy to be able to say that in the House of Commons today in my party we have members of Italian, Dutch, German, Scandinavian, Chinese and Ukrainian origin and they are all Canadians. — John Diefenbaker

Have a good time"
Yesterday it was my birthday.
I hung one more year on the line.
I should be depressed.
My life's a mess.
But I'm having a good time.
I've been loving and loving and loving.
I'm exhausted from loving so well
I should go to bed.
But a voice in my head says,
"Ah, what the hell — Paul Simon

The Pig Chef was - if you thought about it - one of the more sinister icons of American roadside art. Danny's personal totem. What kind of pig is a butcher? What kind of pig cooks barbeque? A traitor pig, a killer pig, a doomed preterite pig destined for eternal damnation. Danny's Pig Chefs showed the full weight of this knowledge in their mocking eyes and snaggled snouts. — Rudy Rucker

We don't sit down and go, 'People are uneasy about the economy. Let's write about that.' — Chester Bennington

Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears. — Gabe Newell

Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture. — Patrick Chan

I shoot my big mouth off; it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself. — Marianne Faithfull

If you were married to Marilyn Monroe, you'd cheat with some ugly girl. — George Burns

You create time by joining events together. But they don't join together; there's no separativity. — Frederick Lenz

Dare I ask Mao and his Communist Party?
I fear my throat will be cut into two pieces.
In the name of revolution, for thought crimes,
Such questions can turn me to ashes. — Zoe S. Roy

Um ... is that thing tame?" Frank said.
The horse whinnied angrily.
"I don't think so," Percy guessed. "He just said, 'I will trample you to death, silly Chinese Canadian baby man'. — Rick Riordan

Respect doesn't come without a little resentment. — Neal Shusterman

I remember really bonding with the first generation kids, the Chinese Canadian kids, and in high school bonding with the Latin kids and the East Indian kids. It was very interesting because it made me open to lots of musical sounds. — Nelly Furtado

She asked me later, half-joking, if the characters stay together for the rest of their lives. I couldn't avoid a flicker of annoyance. I answered no: they see each other again as adults and they get involved for a few weeks, maybe months, but in no way do they stay together. I told her it couldn't be like that, it's never like that.
It's never like that in good novels, but in bad novels, anything is possible. — Alejandro Zambra

All my friends are bums. We all gather round our camp-fire (in a can) and sing songs of togetherness as we cuddle, to preserve our warmth... — Will Advise

Whatever has been achieved through pressure and violence is unstable, unreliable and incorrect. — Janusz Korczak

Whatever you expect, you will get. So expect success, not regret. — Debasish Mridha

But sixteen years without optimism had taken a heavy toll; — Salman Rushdie

I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet! — Terry McMillan