Top 237 Beijing Quotes & Sayings

Beijing has shown how to tackle air pollution by using smog towers.

When I went to Beijing, my goal was to do the best with every shot. The outcome was not important, the process was.

Going into Beijing I was like 'what's a Paralympics?'

My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do.

All those places that I've played at is a preparation for me to come to Beijing.

I grew up in the old neighborhood of Beijing where you had a courtyard and trees. Actually, the whole of Beijing was a garden - the Forbidden City - and the lakes and gardens in the city center were all artificial.

I have bronze in Beijing, silver in London, and now gold in Rio. It is the perfect story.

When we started out, we were among the first. Beijing had no and Shanghai had very few large buildings. At that time, it was all about building, building, building - and then selling, selling, selling. We were working like a manufacturer. Soon, however, we realized that land was running out in Beijing and Shanghai. So we started keeping our buildings, and managing and renting them out. We became landowners. That was the second act.

You might not be ready for diplomacy with Beijing if you can't visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally.

In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.

When it comes to emotions, we all feel pain in the same way, everyone, whether you're from Istanbul or Beijing.

Well it did not make excessive sense to say that 20 million people are the recognized government of a billion people that have their own institutions. We did not change it in the sense that we said this has to end, but there was a U.N. vote that transferred the legitimacy of China from Taiwan to Beijing. Beijing was recognized as the government of all of China. Then, under President Carter, we followed what the U.N. had already done eight years earlier.

I'm optimistic Hong Kong will achieve universal suffrage - no matter the attitude of Beijing.

Having all that experience, and that success as well, at a Paralympics was just amazing but I don't really remember much from Beijing, it was quite a blur.

But post my victory in Beijing, I actually wanted to quit sport and move on to something else in life.

Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.

Everyone saw me cry with happiness after I won the Beijing medals. It's really embarrassing.

I went to China for a brief working visit, and I thought that Shanghai was interesting, but Beijing totally grabbed me.

To win more medals at Beijing is just fantastic, and British cycling has come a huge way in the last few years.

Beijing is my favorite city in China.

Most descriptions make Beijing sound overbuilt: not a blade of grass left.

I had a good chance when I went to Beijing and the guy who beat me, I'd beaten him three weeks before and he went on to win silver.

Our company has only been active in Beijing and Shanghai, two very market-dominated cities. This was an advantage. Land is purchased here in public auctions, in a transparent way. When you do real estate development outside Beijing and Shanghai it is good to have "guanxi" - good relations within the local government.

Go walk the streets of Beijing. It's pretty hard to argue it isn't a modern city. Now, if you go outside [of Beijing], in the rural areas, that's true. But rural America, you can say the same thing, in Appalachia there's an awful lot of poverty and lack of education.

When we understand and respect Beijing's insistence on some aspects, we hope Beijing can understand and respect Taiwan's insistence on democracy and freedom.

Beijing didn't go the way I planned and I would have liked to have performed a little bit better personally. After Beijing that is what stuck in my mind. I want a better Olympic finish.

So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company.

Beijing has a history of ignoring the rules. It takes pride in it.

It took years, honestly, to deal with the disappointment of Beijing.

As a student in Beijing in 1996, I sometimes marveled at the sheer obscurity of the movies that somehow made it onto pirated discs in China.

Coming into London having the experience of Beijing is really good.

I think Beijing deserves the Olympics in order to be with all the rest of the world recognized.

Beijing was a huge slap in the face, and it forced me to look at myself. I have to realise that this is my life.

When you live in Beijing for a while, you gain a finely tuned understanding of air.

Beijing has a glut of charming and traditional or brash and luxurious places to stay.

Although the general security situation for the Beijing Olympics remains stable, we still face the challenges of terrorism, separatism and extremism.

When I was in Beijing, London, and also in Rio I was still a kid really, I didn't feel pressure.

Coming to Beijing, throughout all of what has happened and the success I have gained, I look at it as I was just fortunate and blessed.

My school have been so supportive in the balance between my sport and my studying, ever since I won the two golds in Beijing.

Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.

The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.

I was born in Beijing and raised in England and America. I studied political science in college and film in graduate school in New York.

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

I grew up in Beijing and Beijing roast duck is my favorite. My mom makes it every year for Christmas Eve. How crispy the skin is is how good a duck restaurant is.

When we were in Beijing, they were all "it's an honor, you're playing at the oldest rock club in Beijing". And I was all "oh crazy how old is it?" And then were all: "5 years old."Asia is just very different.

To get Xi Jinping to help with our Pyongyang problem, Trump has dropped all talk of befriending Taiwan, backed off Tillerson's warning to Beijing to vacate its fortified reefs in the South China Sea, and held out promises of major concessions to Beijing in future trade deals.

Beijing intends to dominate the U.S. and the rest of the planet economically, militarily and technologically.

When I see someone from Beijing owning 50 houses in Auckland I don't think that's neo-racist

Beijing's imperial reach extends far and wide, from Taiwan and Xinjiang to the South China Sea and beyond.

There are no ethical boundaries to Beijing's pursuit of power.

Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.

I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.

My Beijing jersey means more to me than any of them.

Beijing residents joke that to get a free smoke all they have to do is open their windows!

Beijing would indeed consider vetoing any American effort to sanction Iran at the Security Council.

In 2007, as a condition for hosting the Olympics in Beijing, the Chinese government removed restrictions barring Beijing-based journalists from leaving the capital without prior written permission.

I'm confident I can take the gold in Beijing.

So Mandarin, I picked it up, I spent a year in Beijing studying but then when you don't use it, languages, you just kinda forget it all.

While we do not want war, we will not tolerate any bullying by Beijing.

From B.A. to M.A. and on to Ph.D., my academic career was all smooth sailing. Upon receiving my degrees, I stayed on to teach at Beijing Normal University.