Quotes About Mexico
Si alguna vez voy a regresar a México con el vientre casi a punto de estallar, será no porque esté preñada nada más que de viento ni preñada de un hijo tuyo o del Coronel Rodríguez: será de tempestades y borrascas, de torbellinos, para que cuando los mexicanos me den de palos como siempre lo hicieron y reviente, les llueva, juntas, Maximliano, todas las desgracias y las calamidades que se merecen por haber sido tan ingratos con nosotros.
~ Fernando Del Paso
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a Veracruz lo llaman el "Jardín de Aclimatación": si sobrevives en esa ciudad, sobrevives en cualquier lugar de México-.
~ Fernando Del Paso
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Ay, Maximiliano, si pudieras venir a Querétaro verías que de esa tu sangre, la que tú querías que fuera la última que se derramara en tu nueva patria, no quedó huella, nada quedó en el polvo o en las piedras, nada fecundó tu sangre, a la sombra eterna de Benito Juárez, en la ladera del Cerro de las Campañas: se la llevó el viento, la barrió la historia, la olvidó México.
~ Fernando Del Paso
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De haber vivido hoy en México Rodrigo Borgia habría sido del PRI, se habría hecho elegir presidente, se habría alzado con dos mil millones de dólares
~ Fernando Vallejo
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On President Trump's on actually hurting Mexico with tariffs, "That might be his play, if we can ascribe any sophistication to it. That's a big if, because he may just be insane."
~ Flavio Volpe
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'In Case You Didn't Know' was written in Mexico, actually, on a songwriter's retreat.
~ Brett Young
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I came up in the U.K., which is a very catch-as-catch-can style, and then I somehow ended up in Japan and spent eight years there learning strong style. I got to spend some time in Mexico learning the lucha libre style, and the WWE is a hybrid style of everything mixed together.
~ Finn Balor
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At one point, I left Mexico to continue my career globally, and a new star came about. He is known now as Myzteziz, but back then he was known as Mistico, and then Sin Cara when he joined WWE. I would have to say the fans, in their eyes, see a lot of similarities between us.
~ Rey Mysterio
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I'm not just selling out Yankee Stadium; I'm selling out stadiums in Mexico, in Argentina - with my bachata. I try to stay true to what I do.
~ Romeo Santos
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
~ Carl Wilson
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My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived to Mexico when he was 14 years old.
~ Carlos Slim
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Many Mexican directors are scared to shoot in Mexico City, which is why there are many stories in Mexican cinema about little rural towns, or set a hundred years ago.
~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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We have years of tradition in lucha libre in Mexico.
~ Alberto Del Rio
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No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands.
~ Henry Louis Gates
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I was born in 1976. I grew up in a traditional Mexican family. As a child, I had a pretty normal life: I would go to school, play with my friends and cousins. But then my father became President of Mexico, and my life changed.
~ Emiliano Salinas
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Growing up in Mexico, I have many fond memories of not only celebrating posadas with my family, but also of the time spent together menu planning and prepping for decoration and entertaining activities. A lot of work goes into celebrating these traditions, but that doesn't mean they have to cost a lot too.
~ Marcela Valladolid
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Deciding that he was essentially useless, I made him a large glass of sangre del tigre- "blood of the tiger"- a lethal Bloody Mary that I had picked up in Mexico City. Tomato juice, clam juice, raw egg, fresh horseradish, hot sauce, ground white and black pepper, salt, the juice from pickled jalapeños, orange zest, and a large slug of mezcal.
~ Stacey Ballis
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The Mexicans, interestingly, had taken the new pandemic strategy of the United States and run with it. They'd closed schools, and socially distanced the population in other ways that, studies would later show, shut down disease transmission.
~ Michael Lewis
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Both the mushroom and its psychoactive compound were unknown to science until the 1950s, when the psilocybin mushroom was discovered in southern Mexico, where Mazatec Indians had been using "the flesh of the gods," in secret, for healing and divination since before the Spanish conquest.
~ Michael Pollan
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psilocybin, had been used by the indigenous peoples of Mexico and Central America for hundreds of years as a sacrament. Called teonanácatl by the Aztecs, or "flesh of the gods," the mushroom was brutally suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church after the Spanish conquest and driven underground.
~ Michael Pollan
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My sister sings, and in Mexico, we have these things called 'Casa de la Cultura,' which are specific places where they actually foster culture. They support people who want to do something in culture.
~ Yalitza Aparicio
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No level of border security, no wall, doubling the size of the border patrol, all these things will not stop the illegal migration from countries as long as a 7-year-old is desperate enough to flee on her own and travel the entire length of Mexico because of the poverty and the violence in her country.
~ Jeh Johnson
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Yucatán in Mexico means "What?" or "What are you saying?"—the reply given by the natives to the first Spanish conquistadors to fetch up on their shores. The
~ Bill Bryson
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But unlike the Freemasons or other secret societies, who were focused on longtime traditions, the KGC wanted something far more hateful: for the Union to end so they could run their own slave-based society. Their goal was to create a true, physical "golden circle"—with Mexico and the Caribbean—to build a private part of the country where slavery would continue. If that led to breaking up the Union, the KGC was all for it.
~ Brad Meltzer
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