--- title: "8 Hmong Quotes by 5 authors" description: "Browse 8 Hmong quotes by 5 authors. Discover the best Hmong sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e78/rose-christo-15632_love_coldness-settles-again-in-my-stomach-i-d_88853.jpg" --- > [“Coldness settles again in my stomach. I do not want a nice Hmong girl. I want a nice Egyptian boy who teaches…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-christo/coldness-settles-again-in-my-stomach-i-do-not-want-a-nice-hmong-girl/) [Rose Christo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-christo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e78/rose-christo-15632_love_coldness-settles-again-in-my-stomach-i-d_88853.jpg) > [Usually, Hmong funerals last several days and our whole family comes together for it. It's a Hmong tradition to fold thousands of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sunisa-lee/usually-hmong-funerals-last-several-days-and-our-whole-family-comes/) [Sunisa Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sunisa-lee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ff/sunisa-lee-39122_family_usually-hmong-funerals-last-several-days_695522.jpg) > [“I was struck - not for the first time in my years of travel - by how isolating contemporary American society can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/i-was-struck-not-for-the-first-time-in-my-years-of-travel-by-how/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e80/elizabeth-gilbert-131_american-society_i-was-struck-not-for-the-first-time-in-m_1109721.jpg) > [“Timothy Dunnigan: The kinds of metaphorical language that we use to describe the Hmong say far more about us, and our attachment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-fadiman/timothy-dunnigan-the-kinds-of-metaphorical-language-that-we-use-to/) [Anne Fadiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-fadiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/972/anne-fadiman-7855_cultural-differences_timothy-dunnigan-the-kinds-of-metaphoric_1135923.jpg) > [“The Hmong have a phrase, hais cuaj txub kaum txub, which means “to speak of all kinds of things.” It is often…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-fadiman/the-hmong-have-a-phrase-hais-cuaj-txub-kaum-txub-which-means-to-speak/) [Anne Fadiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-fadiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a8/anne-fadiman-7855_phrase_the-hmong-have-a-phrase-hais-cuaj-txub-k_2528303.jpg) > [“We'd better go," I say. "It's time for you to make Hmong babies." Toua pulls free from my grasp. "You little--" "Go.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-christo/we-d-better-go-i-say-it-s-time-for-you-to-make-hmong-babies-toua/) [Rose Christo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-christo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c94/rose-christo-15632_humor_we-d-better-go-i-say-it-s-time-for-you-t_2918983.jpg) > [“I told her we will not become the birds or the bees. We will become Hmong, and we will build a strong…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kao-kalia-yang/i-told-her-we-will-not-become-the-birds-or-the-bees-we-will-become/) [Kao Kalia Yang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kao-kalia-yang/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/73e/kao-kalia-yang-45898_told-birds_i-told-her-we-will-not-become-the-birds_3073666.jpg) > [“The Hmong never had any interest in ruling over the Chinese or anyone else; they wanted merely to be left alone, which,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-fadiman/the-hmong-never-had-any-interest-in-ruling-over-the-chinese-or-anyone/) [Anne Fadiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-fadiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/621/anne-fadiman-7855_culture_the-hmong-never-had-any-interest-in-ruli_3230276.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hmong/#itemlist", "name": "Hmong Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Coldness settles again in my stomach. 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It's a Hmong tradition to fold thousands of little paper boats with silver or gold paper that represent money the person could take into the afterlife, but we couldn't do that because of the coronavirus.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sunisa Lee" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sunisa-lee/usually-hmong-funerals-last-several-days-and-our-whole-family-comes/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ff/sunisa-lee-39122_family_usually-hmong-funerals-last-several-days_695522.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ff/sunisa-lee-39122_family_usually-hmong-funerals-last-several-days_695522.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ff/sunisa-lee-39122_family_usually-hmong-funerals-last-several-days_695522.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Usually, Hmong funerals last several days and our whole family comes together for it. 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