Top 165 Kong Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Kong Quotes from famous people such as P. J. O’Rourke, Erin O’Toole, Morgan Ortagus, Henry Golding, Mark Hunt, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie

I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I’ve never gone club-hopping. I’ve never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.
P. J. O’Rourke
Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand have stood together in the long struggle for freedom for decades. We have a responsibility to the people of Hong Kong to support them as they struggle to maintain the freedom that was guaranteed to them by Beijing in 1984.
Erin O’Toole
The continued erosion of the one country, two systems framework puts at risk Hong Kong’s long-established special status in international affairs.
Morgan Ortagus
I was raised on Hong Kong movies with Asian stars, so I’m still learning about Hollywood underrepresenting certain people.
Henry Golding
They can be King Kong, Godzilla, or whatever – I don’t care what they have. Once you get a punch in the face or a knee in the head, all of those skills are gone.
Mark Hunt
Self-determination means the political and economic status of Hong Kong should be freely determined by the Hong Kong people.
Joshua Wong
If achieving the Hong Kong dream becomes a vanishing hope, then our society will suffer. What would the Hong Kong dream be? It’s no different from the American dream, whereby an everyday man on the street who works hard would be able to make good savings and use those savings as equity for their future small business.
Richard Li
We will continue civil disobedience to fight for democracy and for human rights in Hong Kong.
Joshua Wong
I was born in Cambridge but brought up in and around Winchester, in Hampshire. I’ve also lived in Hong Kong and America.
Chris Geere
Any effort to impose national security legislation that does not reflect the will of the people of Hong Kong would be highly destabilizing and would be met with strong condemnation from the United States and the international community.
Morgan Ortagus
Kagoshima is the first step in our plan to develop increased scheduled air links between Hong Kong and Japan, especially the southern islands of Kyushu and Okinawa.
Helmut Sohmen
In London, the food critics are harsher, the clients milder; in Hong Kong, the clients are harsher, the critics milder.
Alvin Leung
I just took the idea that King Kong was too big for everything and reversed it and put George in a land of giants, which is basically what every kid goes through anyway – that, you know, the world is made for grownups, for tall people, for the giants.
William Joyce
Hong Kong people may be ethnically Chinese, but lots of people do not consider ourselves, including me, as Chinese citizens.
Joshua Wong
When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.
Paul Theroux
When I look at ‘Fallen Angels,’ I realize it is not a film that is truly about Hong Kong. It’s more like my Hong Kong fantasy. I want Hong Kong to be quiet, with less people.
Wong Kar-wai
Rest in peace, King Kong Bundy.
Sean Waltman
The SCMP, in short, reveals the renewed spirit of Hong Kong driven by my government – connect and excel – and in its passionate commitment to the community.
Carrie Lam
I’ve been to McDonald’s in Spain, Greece, Turkey, Ireland, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Scotland, Hong Kong, Japan, Canada and Singapore. Despite that, I’m still without a fast food endorsement, which hurts a bit because you’re not really somebody unless someone is paying for your McDonald’s.
Robin Lopez
People may recognize me as some sort of superhero, but it’s different. Spider-Man and all these other superheroes, they get superpowers and do what they want to save the city. If we need to save Hong Kong, we can’t rely on superpowers, we can just rely on the people.
Joshua Wong
While I was writing ‘Stick Out Your Tongue’ in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.
Ma Jian
Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.
Anthony Bourdain
Hong Kong movies were really popular in my generation.
Gong Yoo
I grew up mainly in the Far East, where my father worked for the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, which was then a small, well-run colonial institution and not the global colossus it is today.
John Lanchester
For the world’s four Chinese-speaking regions – Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and mainland China – the longer the colonization, the more advanced a place is.
Ko Wen-je
Hong Kong is the city with the highest degree of freedom of all the Chinese territories.
Joshua Wong
I was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to the United States with my family when I was 4. I spent most of my childhood in Chicago. My elementary school had no program in English as a second language, so I was placed in a class for students with speech impediments.
Clara Shih
I dress pop stars, and I dress my doctor. It’s about attitude. I do what I love, and I’m lucky to do it. It’s a long way from Hong Kong.
John Rocha
The Olympic medal gave me a lot of confidence, and I went and won my first Super Series in Hong Kong. So in that regards, what Rio did was give me extra motivation and the confidence that now anything can happen.
P. V. Sindhu
The original communitarianism of Chinese Confucian society has degenerated into nepotism, a system of family linkages, and corruption, on the mainland. And remnants of the evils of the original system are still found in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and even Singapore.
Lee Kuan Yew
American diplomats meet with formal government officials, we meet with opposition protesters, not just in Hong Kong or China. This literally happens in every single country in which an American embassy is present.
Morgan Ortagus
I am a pro-democracy activist asking for free elections

I am a pro-democracy activist asking for free elections in Hong Kong.
Joshua Wong
I do not lead the Hong Kong protests, because no one person leads the protests.
Joshua Wong
Quality Healthcare is a premier healthcare brand in Hong Kong and is the leading private healthcare provider there. We are believers in long-term growth prospects of the Asian healthcare space and the benefits of a world-class pan-Asian integrated healthcare delivery system.
Malvinder Mohan Singh
Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating ‘people power’ with instability.
Sam Brownback
I love cities. New York, Montreal, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne, Toronto, L.A… but, I do choose to live in Vancouver. It’s home.
Stewart Butterfield
Hong Kong never had prestige. It’s gone from fishing village to where it is today.
Alvin Leung
When Hong Kong was under British administration, governors were dispatched from London to govern this city. We had no say in the matter.
Carrie Lam
I love the sense of belonging in Hong Kong. I love that it is such an international city. I love our food and our language. The people are energetic and passionate. I just really love this city.
Joshua Wong
If I can find time to play games, it’s console gaming. I don’t want to be plugged into my phone all the time. I’m waiting for the new Mario Kart to come out, but I’ve been playing Donkey Kong and Mario 3D World on the Wii U.
Michelle Phan
One overseas diner told me that he was not going to come back to Hong Kong, but after visiting my restaurant he saw that there was more to our city than he originally thought, and he would therefore be back. That made me proud.
Alvin Leung
We shall continue our fight for democracy and freedom because we do not accept that Hong Kong will be transformed into a police state.
Joshua Wong
I’ve played 8-ball in Hong Kong and I’m more knowledgeable with that than 9-ball.
Jimmy White
It is amazing that you now have a bus company in Ballymena producing world class buses for Hong Kong, Singapore, London and Las Vegas.
Martin McGuinness
I can watch CNN on television or the Internet to find out what happened in Hong Kong ten minutes ago. After all, it doesn’t matter where something is made, we’re all part of the same big family now.
Jet Li
Hong Kong people say Hong Kong needs to preserve its uniqueness. I say Hong Kong’s uniqueness is in its diversity, its tolerance of difference cultures… China does not want to see Hong Kong in decline. I have full confidence in its future.
Jack Ma
Sometimes I’d hear things on other people’s records and I say I wanted it on my records, but Leslie Kong said, no, it wasn’t right and that it wasn’t my style.
Desmond Dekker
New York City is the financial capital of the world. The Dodd-Frank Act, I think, is going to change that. It’s going to send jobs to London and Geneva and Hong Kong and Sydney instead of keeping New York the financial center of the world.
Wendy Long
I think it will be quite the spectacle to have Awesome Kong and Beth Phoenix in the same ring at the same time.
Beth Phoenix
In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the action director. He takes over and he choreographs with – by himself or with his team, and place the camera where he feels cinematic effect to bring out that choreography.
Donnie Yen
I want to clear this once and for all. I was born in Hong Kong. I grew up in Japan and China. London is not home for me. I was there only for three years before I moved to India, but that’s probably why I am connected with it. London is definitely not the place I consider my home. It’s India that I consider home.
Katrina Kaif
The problem with a lot of Chinese is that they put up divisions between Taiwanese, Hong Kong natives, mainlanders. We are never united. I really hope that the Chinese can be more united.
Martin Yan
While the fashion in Paris is very chic and classy, the fashion in Hong Kong is very hip, young and colorful.
Madhura Naik
Hong Kong is a wonderful city.
Carrie Lam
I came to Hong Kong when I was five, but we didn’t have any relatives in Hong Kong. My mom is a big movie fan, and she watched all kinds of movies, so when I was a kid, basically, we went to watch a movie every day.
Wong Kar-wai