Famous quotes containing the words chinese, national, baseball, team and/or competition:
“Elsa Bannister: The Chinese say It is difficult for love to last long; therefore one who loves passionately is cured of love, in the end.
Michael OHara: Thats a hard way of thinking.
Elsa: Theres more to the proverb: Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.”
—Orson Welles (19151985)
“A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.”
—Alexander Hamilton (17571804)
“Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
“Once a word is spoken, a team of four horse cannot retake it.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Wearing overalls on weekdays, painting somebody elses house to earn money? Youre working class. Wearing overalls at weekends, painting your own house to save money? Youre middle class.”
—Lawrence Sutton, British prizewinner in competition in Sunday Correspondent (London)