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On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family QUOTES

On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family QUOTES

1 " I remember a song we used to sing, "Columbia, Gem of the Ocean." But I thought it was, "Columbus, Jump in the Ocean. "

― Lisa See , On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family

2 " You can’t learn about living unless you live. You can’t live unless you take a chance; and your living is limited by the chances you take. "

― Lisa See , On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family

3 " The fallen leaves return to the root. "

― Lisa See , On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family

4 " The Exclusion Act of 1882 was devastating. Under this law, Chinese laborers wouldn’t be allowed to enter the United States for ten years. The wives of current resident laborers were also barred from entry. All Chinese needed to be registered and carry their residency papers at all times. Finally, they were declared totally ineligible for citizenship. (This clause alone allowed the United States to join Nazi Germany and South Africa as the only nations ever to withhold naturalization on purely racial grounds.) "

― Lisa See , On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family

5 " When you do things in a soft way, you make the other people believe they’ve thought up something to do for you, when actually you’re directing them.” Later, Ruth "

― Lisa See , On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family

6 " or show any disrespect for male "

― Lisa See , On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family

7 " Yes, she had held her family together, but at what cost to herself. "

― Lisa See , On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family

8 " husband got pneumonia and "

― Lisa See , On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family

9 " You are very smart. You must be very well educated. You are very pretty. You must be very rich because you’re a writer. "

― Lisa See , On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family