Tess Gerritsen Quotes

I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share some information, tell the worldwide audience.

I always love China, especially the old China.

I have a deep love for the Chinese people.

I love the Chinese people.

I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.

School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.

China is a great country with a great culture, populated by fascinating, industrious and talented people.

I'm slowly feeling more Chinese and feel I should be more proud of being Chinese and appreciate where I've come from.

I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.

I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.

I've always been fascinated by the Chinese. This goes a long way back to my childhood. The Chinese invented money, movable type, clocks, and built the largest ships in the history of the world.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

I am an American, steeped in American values. But I know on an emotional level what it means to be of the Chinese culture.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

The fundamental purpose of schools is to grow adults.

I'm raising kids, and so much of American culture sustains me and gives me things to think about and work on.

Life is the greatest teacher.

America loses so much of what defines it if you subtract the Chinese influence. I know this because I spent 12 years living in one of America's most popular tourist destinations: San Francisco. And it would not be one of America's top tourist destinations without Chinatown.

Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.

One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.

There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is being able simply to support them.