Quotes by Mexican authors

Mexican FlagWelcome to Mexican Quotes, your source for the best as well as most motivating quotes from Mexico! Below you will find a collection of quotes from well-known Mexican writers, politicians, and also stars, in addition to daily individuals. Whether you are trying to find a quote to encourage you, to make you laugh, or to make you think, you will certainly locate it below. Discover our collection of Mexican quotes as well as find the perfect one for you!
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Small: The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrumen
"The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace"
Carlos Santana, Musician
Small: To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes to hear it is to see it with our ears
"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears"
Octavio Paz, Poet
Small: I dont divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one
"I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one"
Luis Barragan, Architect
Small: Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads
"Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico"
Anthony Quinn, Actor
Small: Im a lapsed altar boy
"I'm a lapsed altar boy"
Guillermo del Toro, Director
Small: I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you
Frida Kahlo
"I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you"
Frida Kahlo, Painter
Small: I never satisfied that kid but I think he and I have made a deal now
"I never satisfied that kid but I think he and I have made a deal now"
Anthony Quinn, Actor
Small: If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersecti
"If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time"
Octavio Paz, Poet
Small: On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience
"On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience"
Anthony Quinn, Actor
Small: Now, Marlon and I - for some reason, even today - even today, we cant say two words to each other. We really c
"Now, Marlon and I - for some reason, even today - even today, we can't say two words to each other. We really can't talk to each other. You know, I say to him - Marlon can't talk. I mean, he'd talk to you. But he can't talk"
Anthony Quinn, Actor
Small: I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day h
"I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays"
Anthony Quinn, Actor
Small: There is no point to samba if it doesnt make you smile
"There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile"
Alma Guillermoprieto, Journalist
Small: Theyre getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fan
"They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do"
Guillermo del Toro, Director
Small: And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry sh
"And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican"
Alma Guillermoprieto, Journalist
Small: The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day
"The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day"
Alma Guillermoprieto, Journalist
Small: The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and thats why the guerri
"The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income"
Alma Guillermoprieto, Journalist
Small: I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror
"I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror"
Guillermo del Toro, Director
Small: I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best
Frida Kahlo
"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best"
Frida Kahlo, Painter
Small: Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
Frida Kahlo
"Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?"
Frida Kahlo, Painter
Small: The most enjoyable part of my career is singing live
"The most enjoyable part of my career is singing live"
Luis Miguel, Musician
Small: I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance
"I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance"
Luis Miguel, Musician
Small: We all love Linux, but its also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate
"We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate"
Miguel de Icaza, Scientist
Small: I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think its by June next year
"I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year we all migrate to Linux - you don't want to migrate 6,000 people both operating system and office suite in a single jump"
Miguel de Icaza, Scientist
Small: Ive stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!
Salma Hayek
"I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!"
Salma Hayek, Actress
Small: If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious
"If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait"
Diego Rivera, Artist
Small: Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history
"Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history"
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Politician
Small: My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance
"My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly"
Carlos Santana, Musician
Small: Your wrinkles either show that youre nasty, cranky, and senile, or that youre always smiling
"Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling"
Carlos Santana, Musician
Small: Im laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence.
"I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing"
Carlos Santana, Musician
Small: First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the c
"First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that"
Carlos Santana, Musician
Small: The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold
"The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold"
Carlos Santana, Musician
Small: Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present,
"Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins"
Carlos Santana, Musician
Small: If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungr
"If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about"
Carlos Santana, Musician
Small: When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell
"When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden"
Carlos Santana, Musician
Small: Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and theyre affixed to you
"Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you"
Carlos Santana, Musician
Small: I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses
"I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses"
Carlos Santana, Musician
Small: Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life
"Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life"
Carlos Santana, Musician
Small: Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing.
"Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history"
Octavio Paz, Poet
Small: Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two
"Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two"
Octavio Paz, Poet
Small: I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead
"I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead"
Anthony Quinn, Actor
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