Chinese Quote by James Keller

“...she treated the Ten Commandments more like the Ten Suggestions...”

— Jeannette Walls

“Ten Commandments: I asked her why she never told us about the Ten Commandments & she said she wasn't ever that good with numbers…

— Brian Andreas

The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.

— H. L. Mencken

“Oh—so you’ve never noticed anything missing in the Ten Commandments?” He ran through the list in his head, but he already sensed where she…

— Alexandra Sokoloff

“We cannot break the Ten Commandments. We can only break ourselves against them.”

— Cecil B. DeMille

They're the Ten Commandments, not the Ten suggestions

— Anonymous

Only two kinds of daughters, she shouted in Chinese. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!

— Amy Tan

When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves.…

— Maxine Hong Kingston

I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.

— Anonymous

There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.

— Mordecai Richler

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

— H. L. Mencken

“We may look and act modern in many ways, but we can’t escape what we are... obedient chinese daughters.”

— Lisa See