Colossus/rides

Famous quotes containing the words colossus and/or rides:

“Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we—the white race—have become the yellow man’s burden. Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)

“The one who rides knows not the trials of walking; he who is full does not know the bitterness of hunger.”
—Chinese proverb.