Mainland Quotes

35 quotes by 31 authors

One of my goals is to have a base near mainland China. I think Hong Kong would be a good match for me. I like… — Nicolas Cage
A trip to the mainland was a big event and happened maybe once a year, although now you can get across in a speed boat… — Jeremy Irons
The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some new mutation or… — Julian Huxley
You cannot invade mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass. — Isoroku Yamamoto
I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems… — Jacques Maritain
I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European… — Andrew Motion
On the mainland, a rain was falling. The famous Seattle rain. The thin, gray rain that toadstools love. The persistent rain that knows every hidden… — Tom Robbins
Whether it is in the United States or in mainland Europe, written constitutions have one great weakness. That is that they contain the potential to… — Margaret Thatcher
During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or other, from mainland Europe, and the solutions from… — Margaret Thatcher
It is really so nice here-country-busy-busy with so many different kinds of things-... I must say I feel far away in another world here-... always… — Georgia O'Keeffe
If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white… — Amiri Baraka
I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan.… — Jung Chang
There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these… — Hari Kunzru
Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness. They are more willing to follow their… — Nathaniel Branden
But if the Chinese mainland, the PRC, attacked Taiwan, we'd be obligated to come to their aid. — Fred Thompson
Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet difference from, mainland Europe; and international trade and exploration,… — Julian Baggini
When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem… — Agatha Christie
You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass. — Isoroku Yamamoto
Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide… — Harriet Tubman
The election of the nationalist Chen Shui-bian as president in 2000 and his re-election in 2004 was a nadir in the relationship between Taiwan and… — Martin Jacques

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31 authors contributed a total of 35 Mainland Quotes, led by these top contributors: