36 Vietnamese Quotes for You to Enjoy

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about - or as a ritual like filling up a car - but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon. Anthony Bourdain

Life Music Good Food Daily Experience Car Sex Else Pleasurable Pleasure Collected See About Something Something Else More Gives Ritual Part Like Nap Italians Up Essential Afternoon Chinese Spanish Vietnamese Filling Larger Daily Life

I only follow one party: the Vietnamese party. Ho Chi Minh

Party One Party Follow Only Vietnamese

Everybody who went to Vietnam carries his or her own version of the war. Only 10 percent engaged in combat; the American elephant, pursuing the Vietnamese grasshopper, was extraordinarily heavy with logistical support. Pete Hamill

Natto, Japanese ferment bean paste, will never cross my lips again. Spam Musubi, on the other hand, is something I love. I used to have a roommate of Vietnamese descent, and he would eat it all the time. It looked gross, but I finally had it - wrapped in seaweed and rice - it was terrific. Adam Richman

Love Time Will Other Finally Would Wrapped Eat Cross Something Bean Never Had He Looked Terrific Ferment Hand Paste Lips Again Spam Japanese Rice Vietnamese Used Gross Descent Seaweed

A lot of women do stand-up as a gateway into acting, but I love stand-up, and to be a good stand-up, you have to go on the road a lot. It means going to places in America where they've never seen a Vietnamese person in their life. Ali Wong

Life Love Good You Women Seen Never Road Go Lot Person America Going Where Places Means Vietnamese Acting Gateway

One of my best friends growing up was Vietnamese, and he and his mom would teach me how to say certain things so I could impress my nail girls. Then the nail girls would teach me how to count to 100 and basic things like 'Thank you' and 'You're welcome.' It's funny, because any accent that I do now always turns into Vietnamese. Anjelah Johnson

Funny Best Mom Me You Welcome Girl Impress Thank You Say Would Could Count He Nail Like Accent Because Always How His Up Friends Thank Any Then Certain Turns Vietnamese Teach Certain Things Growing Growing Up Now Basic Things Basic Things

The fact is that the Vietnamese held Americans after 1973. Bo Gritz

Fact American After Held Vietnamese

We moved to a town that's predominately Caucasian, some Hispanic and one or two black families, and they do shrimping for a living. Here come hundreds of Vietnamese doing the same occupation. So there was a lot of tension because people were saying we were taking money, shrimp, fish or whatever it is. Dat Nguyen

Saying People Money Black Whatever Living Hundreds One Or Two Some Taking Tension Town Come Occupation Because Caucasian Doing Fish Were Hispanic Lot Families Same Moved Vietnamese Shrimp Here Two

The Marines in Korea never feared 'friendly fire' or artillery coming from the South Koreans - from their allies - like they did later in Vietnam, fighting with the South Vietnamese. The Koreans could be trusted. David Douglas Duncan

Fire Fighting Marines Later Feared Allies Could Never Like Korea Koreans Coming South Trusted Friendly Did Artillery Vietnam Vietnamese

I believe firmly in reconciliation among Vietnamese to avoid unnecessary shedding of the blood of Vietnamese. Duong Van Minh

Believe Unnecessary Reconciliation Firmly Shedding Blood Vietnamese Avoid Among

I didn't expect to find much visible trace of the American war in Vietnam. The Vietnamese are too hard-bitten to dwell on it, and they've sanded away all but the outcroppings of history - the museums, the memorials. Evan Osnos

War History Too Visible Find Memorials Trace Expect American Dwell Much Vietnam Vietnamese Away Museums

The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that. George Wald

Saying You Secret Our Secret Weapon Willingness Weapon Beyond Ready Been Effect Lot Thank Die May Heaven Us Vietnamese

I love how Vietnamese cuisine always tastes like flowers, and how they had the ingenious idea of pairing that floral flavor with seafood: such a combination shouldn't work as well as it does. Hanya Yanagihara

Work Love Had Idea Combination Like Well Does Always How Cuisine Tastes Flavor Ingenious Vietnamese Seafood Flowers

The crimes committed by the North Vietnamese regime against the Vietnamese people were minor compared to the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge against the Cambodians, but for us on the left they were emotionally far more significant. James Donald

People Crimes Significant Minor More Emotionally Were Left North Committed Regime Against Far Us Vietnamese Rouge Compared

Like many Americans, I am still haunted by images from the last days of the United States' withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975. Newscasts showed South Vietnamese desperately trying to scale the walls of our embassy in Saigon to board the last helicopter flights out of the country. The fear in their eyes was chilling. Jeanne Shaheen

Eyes Fear Walls Country Desperately Our States Scale Out Embassy Haunted Days Like Withdrawal Am Still South Trying American Chilling Board Vietnam Helicopter Vietnamese Flights Many United United States Images Last

I embrace both my Vietnamese and American sides, 100 percent. Jeannie Mai

Sides Embrace Percent Both American Vietnamese

I'm Vietnamese and Chinese, and I am the year of the dragon in the Chinese zodiac. Karrueche Tran

Year Am Chinese Vietnamese Dragon

Growing up, I've always felt I was from two different worlds. I was born in the U.S., but my parents were born in Vietnam, and they raised my sisters and I with the parenting methods of the Vietnamese culture. Kelly Marie Tran

Parenting Culture Parents Worlds Born Felt Always Were Methods Up Sisters Different Vietnam Vietnamese Growing Growing Up Different Worlds Raised Two

In 1975, the Americans suffered a spectacular military defeat at the hands of North Vietnam and the Vietcong, with U.S. helicopters seeking to rescue leading U.S. personnel from the tops of buildings as Vietnamese guerrillas closed in on the centre of Saigon. Martin Jacques

Closed Military Defeat Tops Seeking Leading Buildings North American Hands North Vietnam Centre Personnel Vietnam Helicopters Vietnamese Rescue Suffered Spectacular

My dad and I had been close - he called me Tuyet Bang, Vietnamese for 'avalanche,' because of my nonstop energy. I took a lot from him, like being a risk taker, and I know how much he loved my mother. Michelle Phan

Me Mother Energy Took Risk Had He Like Know Him Because How How Much Nonstop Been Lot Close Bang Being Loved Avalanche Much Vietnamese Dad

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