Family Quote by Kirstin Chen

“Govern a family as you would cook a small fish. CHINESE PROVERB”

— A.C. Grayling

Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All…

— William Carlos Williams

“No amount of takeout Chinese food or politeness ought to make me forget exactly who and what I am dealing with.”

— Holly Black

“We wouldn't eat an important person like you. Sometimes we'll take a sailor, but —" He shrugged. "— so would you if it was always fish.”

— Clive Barker

“Let’s order cheap Chinese and eat it out of the box with chopsticks.” “Let’s order good Chinese and do that.”

— Sylvia Day

“Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.”

— Amor Towles

“... Chinese consider eating food to be one of the rare joys of living...”

— Frederick J. Simoons

“Every family's its own trip to China.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“the sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water so that it may grow fatter and be one day worth…

— Virginia Woolf

“And when my father would tell me I would say to him, ‘Get to that lake—get my mother there—don’t let it happen again, not…

— John Steinbeck

“A fisherman was on a riverbank one day when he saw another man fishing nearby. Every time the other man caught a big fish,…

— Joel Osteen

“I was exercised about the poor fish, as I am about all my pals, close or distant, who find themselves treading upon Life's banana…

— P.G.Wodehouse