Mexican Quotes - page 7

Every Mexican family has a member that fought in the Revolution...There are stories in my family of two great uncles who fought on different sides and they would meet at my uncle's land to share a meal and then they'd go back to the fight...The Revolution...it divided families. (Nao Bustamante)
There were 'big stars' at the Alamo! Bowie, Crockett! It is a huge political event because it, and the events at Goliad and San Jacinto, changed the look of a map of America. America would be a very different place if Texas had remained Mexican. View quote
Phil Collins
You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you dont necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican. View quote
Carlos Fuentes
Now, three years later, at the request of the regularly uncooperative Mexican government, your department has decided to use taxpayer resources to send marshals to Hawaii for Dog Chapman? This Administration routinely tells Congress that they cannot secure our borders and immigration system due to a lack of resources. We are told that the U. S . Attorneys offices in Border States are simply overwhelmed with cases and cannot prosecute all the violations even some of the serious ones. Yet somehow they have plenty of time to track down a Mexican drug smuggler and give him immunity so he can testify against our Border Patrol agents. View quote
Tom Tancredo
I could never give up Mexican food. Nachos are usually my go-to if I'm courtside at an NBA game. I always, always get my picture taken with my mouth wide open and a tortilla chip sticking out of it! View quote
Eva Longoria
I'm a terrific Mexican cook, and I just love Mexican food. And I love cooking Mexican food. View quote
Eva Longoria
I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant. View quote
Dolly Parton
If I were president of the United States, I'd build a great wall along the Mexican border and not let anybody in. View quote
Dave Mustaine
Chicano" was a bad word when I was coming up. At least that's what the elders said. The word referred to a Mexican born in the U.S., so by that definition, I'm not Chicano. I was born in Tijuana, but the Mexicans didn't see me as Mexican and the Americans didn't see me as American. I'm a man without a flag. When I started working among Chicanos as an adult, some accepted me, but some didn't. On either side [of the border] I was the "other"; I've always been the other. Later on when I had a bit of success, people on both sides were much more enthusiastic about embracing me. The word "Latino" seems meaningless to me, and "Hispanic" is just wrong. These days, I just tell people my nationality is "Writer. View quote
Luis Alberto Urrea
I have always been amazed that it seems to come as a shock to people that Mexicans are human beings. And on a philosophical level, I always remind interviewers that "the border” has nothing to do being Mexican or not. The border is simply a metaphor for what divides and wounds us as people – and I mean that "border” between any group of people, gay-straight, black-white, Muslim-Jewish, etc... View quote
Luis Alberto Urrea
The kitchen was the United States; the living room was Mexico...One side was struggling with all her might to make me an American boy, and the other side, with all of his might, was trying to keep me a Mexican boy. (Luis Alberto Urrea)
The American white man (not to speak of the Indian, the Negro, the Mexican) hasn't a ghost of a chance. If he has any talent he's doomed to have it crushed one way or another. The American way is to seduce a man by bribery and make a prostitute of him. Or else to ignore him, starve him into submission and make a hack of him. View quote
Henry Miller
Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation. View quote
Samuel P. Huntington
Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past. View quote
Samuel P. Huntington
Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music. View quote
Maya Angelou
It was very important for me to move back to Kingsville because my work is all about the land and the terrain and the cactus and the myths and legends and people. Especially the people, the Mexican community. View quote
Santa Barraza
My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food. View quote
M. Ward
Texas, to be respected, must be polite. Santa Anna, living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna, dead, would just be another dead Mexican. View quote
Sam Houston
The U. S. will invite El Chapo, the Mexican drug lord who just escaped prison, to become a U. S. citizen because our "leaders" can't say no! View quote
Donald Trump
He [ Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter] showed me how to use my first paint box [and gesturing toward an old wooden palette displayed like a prize on the wall] That's my original palette! View quote
Helen Frankenthaler
Oh it's very beautiful to have a very rich heritage from my Indian ancestors. My mother is Mixtec [a native tribe of Oaxaca], and my father was Scottish American. Growing up with those cultures has been enriching. Though, at first very difficult because I was rejected by one culture - in the Mexican Nation there is a lot of discrimination towards the Indian groups. So I struggled with that and with being discriminated as a Mexican. But I think music has been able to erase those boundaries. I think it's easier to stop talking about those borders, and talk more about the music - to make music so that those borders are erased in a poetic way. (Lila Downs)
You can't be all Mexican. It's like being all mongrel. View quote
Cormac McCarthy
I'm gonna tell you something right now, Indian people in the United States are the hardest working people I've ever seen, and that's coming from a Mexican, okay? View quote
Gabriel Iglesias
I don't like to generalize but I've had nothing but bad experiences with Mexican food in Europe. View quote
Ezra Koenig
Living on the hyphen is a complex cultural existence at times, and we're often pulled in many directions where allegiance is always demanded. It is a fractured state of being, though I don't think it's necessarily bad; at least the having multiple ways of looking at life-the Mexican and American/the male and female. Where that goes awry is when we want to make one way of approaching life, The One Way. That's where things begin to disintegrate, loyalties are questioned, and patriarchies are born... View quote
Isabel Quintero