67 Beijing Quotes for You to Enjoy

So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company. John Lone

Money Made Ate Opera Learned Craft Beijing Company Lived

When we understand and respect Beijing's insistence on some aspects, we hope Beijing can understand and respect Taiwan's insistence on democracy and freedom. Ko Wen-je

Hope Freedom Democracy Respect Some Insistence Taiwan Understand Beijing Aspects

In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors. Laure Manaudou

Joy Swimming Everybody Athens Had Sponsors Go Expectations Any Just Beijing Want After Races Racing Fast

My hometown is a very boring city. There isn't a lot of industry - there are a lot of trees. It's not like Beijing where the sky is always dark. In my city the sky is blue and the sun shines. Liu Wen

Dark Sky Trees Sun Sun Shines City Boring Like Industry Always Shines Lot Very Blue Beijing Where Hometown

Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester's velodrome, the National Cycling Centre. Lucy Powell

Success Made Example National Cycling Winners Part For Example Said Been Trained Manchester Beijing Centre Team Medal Olympics

In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings. Ma Jian

Art Group Joined Put Underground Exhibitions Beijing Paintings

I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually. Ma Jian

Before Books Returned Continually Were Left Beijing Banned

Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish. Ma Jian

Me Took Finish Years Beijing

Since the Beijing Olympics in 2008, our office has been discussing how we can make architecture more human and at one with nature. We need to ask ourselves, what legacy do we want to leave behind on humankind's urban culture? Ma Yansong

Nature Culture Architecture Our Ourselves Has-Been More Since Make How Leave Been Legacy Discussing Office Behind Human Beijing Want Urban Ask Humankind Need Olympics

When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women's Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women's rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future. Madeleine Albright

Future Rights Fight Women Better First First Lady Human Rights Out Better Future Inspiring Spoke Hillary She Courageously Up Conference Behalf Stood Human Beijing Lady Millions

Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followed hard on the heels of the riots in Tibet and the demonstrations surrounding the Olympic torch relay. Martin Jacques

Year Earthquake Relay Torch Riots Followed Perceptions Tibet Days Global Until Terms Still Proved Demonstrations Go Tragedy Surrounding Beijing Tumultuous China Heels Hard Olympic Olympics

Now, as the world's scientists focus with increasing intensity on transforming the genetic codes of every living creature into information that can be used to treat and ultimately prevent disease, Shenzhen is home to a different kind of factory: B.G.I., formerly called Beijing Genomics Institute, the world's largest genetic-research center. Michael Specter

Home World Treat Focus Living Every Increasing Kind Prevent Factory Genetic Institute Scientists Ultimately Disease Intensity Beijing Different Center Information Transforming Different Kind Used Codes Creature Now Largest

I'll always be on the move for peace in the Korean peninsula. If necessary, I will fly straight to Washington. I will go to Beijing and Tokyo and, if the conditions allow, to Pyongyang as well. Moon Jae-in

Peace Fly Will Peninsula Allow Well Always Korean Korean Peninsula Go Conditions Move Beijing Straight Tokyo Washington Necessary

My first trip to China was in 1975 when my father was the 'bicycling ambassador' representing the U.S. in Beijing. This was a time towards the end of the Cultural Revolution where there were very few personal liberties, China was pretty much closed off to the West. Neil Bush

Time Father First Revolution Closed Few Liberties Pretty Trip Towards Were West Cultural Ambassador Off End Very Personal Representing Beijing Where China Much

For Dad, service took him many unexpected places. It summoned him and his crew mates to the skies over the Pacific Ocean in World War II. It took him to Capitol Hill, Beijing and eventually the Oval Office. Neil Bush

Service War World Ocean Crew Took Summoned Oval Oval Office Over Hill Him Mates His Office Unexpected Beijing Pacific Pacific Ocean Places Skies Capitol Capitol Hill Many Dad Eventually World War World War II

I have bronze in Beijing, silver in London, and now gold in Rio. It is the perfect story. Nino Schurter

Bronze Rio London Silver Perfect Gold Beijing Story Now

I was born and raised in Vancouver. I moved to Beijing in 2010 just before the Olympics. Being an Asian Canadian actor, the amount of opportunity at the time was slim to none. I made the decision to go to China, and it was one of the best decisions of my life. Osric Chau

Life Time Best Opportunity Decision Made My Life Before Slim Vancouver Born None Go Canadian Just Moved Beijing Being China Decisions Asian Actor Amount Raised Olympics

Tiananmen Square in early 1989 attracted many dreamers like Ma Jian, who returned from Hong Kong to a one-room shack in Beijing in order to join the student protests. Pankaj Mishra

Dreamers Hong Kong Ma Shack Join Student Like Attracted Returned Protests Kong Square Beijing Order Who Many Early

Beijing cannot sit by and let her North Korean ally be bombed, nor can it allow U.S. and South Korean forces to defeat the North, bring down the regime, and unite the peninsula, with U.S. and South Korean soldiers sitting on the Yalu, as they did in 1950 before Mao ordered his Chinese army into Korea. Pat Buchanan

Army Before Sit Down Defeat Soldiers Peninsula Allow Ally Forces Korea Korean His Nor South North Did North Korean Sitting Beijing Ordered Cannot Regime Chinese Mao Unite Bombed Her Bring

I teach MBAs. And I noticed, starting a few years after China joined the World Trade Organization, that a lot of my students were no longer employed. They were still coming to get their MBA, but they'd lost their jobs. And I started to ask questions why. And, at that point, all roads were leading to Beijing. Peter Navarro

World Organization Lost Few Jobs Joined Point Students Roads Leading Longer Employed Trade Trade Organization Still Coming Were Years Lot Questions Get Beijing After China Ask Noticed Teach Why Started World Trade World Trade Organization Starting

For inspiration, we still demand the rhetorical high notes. Clinton has hit them before, in her speech in Beijing as first lady when she said, 'Women's rights are human rights,' and in her 2008 concession speech, when she talked about the '18 million cracks' in the glass ceiling. Rebecca Traister

Rights Women First First Lady Before Human Rights High About Inspiration Glass Demand She Talked Concession Said Still Clinton Ceiling Hit Cracks Human Beijing Lady Rhetorical Them Notes Her Million Speech

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