Anthony Grey > Quotes

“I’ll bet you don’t know, Chuck, how Saigon got its name, do you?” exclaimed Joseph at last, closing the book and jumping to his feet. “It’s really quite interesting.” “I don’t know how it got its name, no,” replied the older boy smiling patiently, “but no doubt some book-reading bore is about to inform me.” “In old Annamese it means ‘Village of the Boxwoods,’ after the trees that originally grew there. It wasn’t much more than a fishing village until the eighteenth century when French Jesuits and a few merchants demanded the right to build a city. But its name could also be based on the Chinese characters ‘Tsai Con,’ which mean ‘Tribute paid to the West.’” “Fascinating,” said Chuck facetiously. “You’re still king of the useless-information department.”
― Anthony Grey, Saigon

“Ah, so the perfidious female is a common species in America too, eh?” inquired the French officer, laughing again. “Isn’t it a worldwide phenomenon?”
― Anthony Grey, Saigon

“your visit?’ ‘My superiors wish to come aboard to”
― Anthony Grey, Tokyo Bay: A Novel of Japan

“The lesson we learn early in our lives and too often forget … to listen to the word of God alive in our own souls.…”
― Anthony Grey, Peking: An Epic Novel of Twentieth-Century China

“Fanaticism breeds fanaticism.”
― Anthony Grey, Peking: An Epic Novel of Twentieth-Century China

“What’s past is prologue. William Shakespeare, The Tempest Don’t bother me with all that history crap. It just gets in the way of action! United States Army colonel, Vietnam, mid-1960s”
― Anthony Grey, Saigon

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― Anthony Grey, Saigon

“I found that if you spend all your time regretting the past, you forfeit the inner peace your soul needs to survive.”
― Anthony Grey, Peking: An Epic Novel of Twentieth-Century China

“Every man’s life, he realized suddenly, was to some degree a journey into the unknown, undertaken to understand himself.”
― Anthony Grey, Peking: An Epic Novel of Twentieth-Century China