146 Quotes by Filipino authors

Filipino quotes hum with the lilt of everyday streets and the hush of dusk by the sea. They carry kapwa, self bound with others, alongside quiet grit, playful wit, and tender lambing. Themes of bayanihan, utang na loob, faith, and yearning surface in images of monsoon rain, mother’s hands, and distant islands. Humor softens hardship; reverence meets rebellion; love is both harana and homecoming. Each line balances ligaya and lungkot, asking the heart to listen and the spirit to keep moving.

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"Win or lose, we go shopping after the election"

Imelda Marcos, Celebrity

"If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much"

Imelda Marcos, Celebrity

"I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back!"

Imelda Marcos, Celebrity

"Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums"

Imelda Marcos, Celebrity

"My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble"

Imelda Marcos, Celebrity

"I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy"

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, President

"I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today"

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, President

"Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it"

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, President

"It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change"

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, President

"In the time one is given, the steward must make the most of the talents one is given by the Lord"

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, President

"I'm not worried. I'm in control!"

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, President

"We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ"

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, President

"I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

Jessica Hagedorn

"We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

Jessica Hagedorn

"I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

Jessica Hagedorn

"Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

Jessica Hagedorn

"But I think there's a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach's growling, I'm going to dance. That's what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

Jessica Hagedorn

"I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

Jessica Hagedorn

"I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

Jessica Hagedorn

"I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

Jessica Hagedorn

"Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

Jessica Hagedorn

"Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

Jessica Hagedorn

"There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

Jessica Hagedorn

"I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

Jessica Hagedorn

"Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

Jessica Hagedorn

"My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

Jessica Hagedorn

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