Mexico famous quotes

The Presidents Woodruff and Smith both said they were willing for such a ceremony to occur, if done in Mexico, and Pres. Woodruff promised the Lord's blessing to follow such an act.
-- Abraham H. Cannon

#Blessing #President #Mexico

Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in...
-- Adam Duritz

#Girl #Mexico #Bottles

Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.
-- Alan Bersin

#People #United States #Mexico

Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.
-- Alex Cox

#Japan #Mexico #Film

I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. And I travel a tremendous amount. I'm in New York and California a lot, but then also I like faraway places a lot.
-- Ali MacGraw

#New York #California #Mexico

The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.
-- Alma Guillermoprieto

#Jobs #Cities #Mexico

Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates.
-- Ana Castillo

#Mexico #Melancholy #Embrace

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

#Railroads #Mexico #West Coast

The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.
-- Barry McCaffrey

#Drug #United States #Mexico

Extremely disappointed that corruption may have reached such a level in Mexico.
-- Barry McCaffrey

#Mexico #Levels #May

Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.
-- Bob Dylan

#Cities #Mind #Mexico

In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.
-- Carlos Slim

#School #Mexico #Culture

I met Jeb Bush in 1971 in my hometown in Mexico. We dated for three years back and forth. Then, after three years, he proposed to me.
-- Columba Bush

#Years #Three #Mexico

The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot.
-- Cruz Bustamante

#Mexico #Shots

There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south.
-- Denis Kearney

#Chinese #Borders #Mexico

The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months of March, April, May, and June of 1856, for the most part on horseback.
-- Edward Burnett Tylor

#Journey #June #Mexico

The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet.
-- Edward Burnett Tylor

#Feet #Mexico

During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake.
-- Edward Burnett Tylor

#Lakes #Valleys #Mexico

We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico.
-- Edward Burnett Tylor

#Real #Mexico #Letters

Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential for once and generate more public welfare.
-- Enrique Pena Nieto

#Reform #Needs #Mexico

Each dollar Mexico exports to the U.S. has a content of American production of 40.
-- Enrique Pena Nieto

#Dollars #Mexico

Today, our planet demands a more effective, efficient, transparent and representative United Nations; a UN where all societies of the world have greater participation. The UN must then, dare to change in order to improve. In Mexico, we firmly believe that the UN has all the powers to be more daring and to renovate itself.
-- Enrique Pena Nieto

#Believe #Order #Mexico

I'm not going to work so that Pena Nieto is the best known or most recognized in the world. I'm going to work so that Mexico has results.
-- Enrique Pena Nieto

#Mexico #World #Results

They do the soaps differently in Mexico. You just have to know the storyline and not memorize the lines. There would be someone feeding you lines while you were performing.
-- Erik Estrada

#Would Be #Mexico #Lines

I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Mexico #Surrealist

We have a documentary film festival in Mexico. It's really original. It's called Ambulante, and it's a film festival that travels around several cities in Mexico.
-- Gael Garcia Bernal

#Cities #Mexico #Festivals

I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.
-- Gael Garcia Bernal

#Groups #Mexico #Film

In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things.
-- Gael Garcia Bernal

#Mexico #Found #Parts Of Life

Many artists in Mexico fight to be the Latina Madonna. I don't want that! Never! Maybe she's the American Gloria Trevi!
-- Gloria Trevi

#Fighting #Artist #Mexico

My life would be in danger if I return to Mexico.
-- Gloria Trevi

#Would Be #Mexico #Return

I've always thought Mexico City was incredibly dynamic.
-- Greg Kinnear

#Cities #Mexico

New Mexico has been, in the past, a swing state.
-- Heather Wilson

#Past #Swings #Mexico

The H-1B visa program which helps sustain our rapidly growing economy and also helps meet the health care needs of families living in rural New Mexico.
-- Heather Wilson

#Mexico #Growing #Care

I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.
-- Herb Alpert

#Taken #Sound #Mexico

Is it in our national interest to overheat the planet? That's the question Obama faces in deciding whether to approve Keystone XL, a 2,000-mile-long pipeline that will bring 500,000 barrels of tar-sand oil from Canada to oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.
-- Jeff Goodell

#Oil #Long #Mexico

Secretly, the Bush administration is pursuing a policy to expand NAFTA politically, setting the stage for a North American Union designed to encompass the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. What the Bush administration truly wants is the free, unimpeded movement of people across open borders with Mexico and Canada.
-- Jerome Corsi

#People #Borders #Mexico

I like surfing in Mexico a whole lot better than sitting with people in Washington that I don't even like.
-- Jesse Ventura

#People #Surfing #Mexico

I live in Mexico in the wintertime, and I live off the grid down there.
-- Jesse Ventura

#Mexico #Grids #Wintertime

A woman in Mexico wanted me to heal her. But I can't heal anybody. I just put my hand on her and said, 'Thank you for seeing the film.'
-- Jim Caviezel

#Thank You #Hands #Mexico

Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day.
-- Joe Baca

#Years #Independence #Mexico

A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program and then returning home.
-- John Shadegg

#Home #Mexico #Guests

I will be the first woman president of Mexico in history.
-- Josefina Vazquez Mota

#President #Mexico #Firsts

Today I'm committed to take care of your families like I've taken care of mine. I want to make Mexico the best country to live in.
-- Josefina Vazquez Mota

#Country #Taken #Mexico

I want to make Mexico the best country to live in.
-- Josefina Vazquez Mota

#Country #Mexico #Want

Everything balled up into one: Beat Mexico and qualify. There's no better scenario.
-- Landon Donovan

#Mexico #Beats

I may buy the Alamo and give it back to Mexico.
-- Lee Trevino

#Golf #Giving #Mexico

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.
-- Len Deighton

#Air #Mexico #Noise

All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico.
-- Lew Wallace

#Mexico #Failing #Elsewhere

My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food.
-- M. Ward

#Grandparent #Mexican #Mexico

Mexico is a safe, as well as a beautiful and warmly gracious, place to visit.
-- Margaret Chan

#Beautiful #Mexico #Safe

We host some trips all over the world. We go to Alaska. We go to Mexico. We're going to Venezuela in December. We've been to Russia, all in conjunction with the radio show.
-- Martin Milner

#Alaska #Russia #Mexico

I feel absolutely no threat or fear in Mexico City.
-- Michael Nyman

#Cities #Mexico #Threat

If nominated, I shall run to Mexico. If elected, I shall fight extradition.
-- Mo Udall

#Running #Fighting #Mexico

I have a lot of respect for Mexico.
-- Nonito Donaire

#Mexico

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.
-- Norman Spinrad

#Manipulation #Mexico #Myth

Not like I need an excuse to enjoy a Moscow mule, but this tray and six-mug set, handmade in Mexico with hammered recycled copper, makes cocktail hour extra special.
-- Oprah Winfrey

#Special #Needs #Mexico

This ability to have reliable sources of energy and a reliable transmission of energy here in North America is critical for both of us and for Mexico as we want to keep our economies growing.
-- Paul Cellucci

#America #Mexico #Growing

I was born in Mexico, I am from Mexico City.
-- Paulina Rubio

#Cities #Mexico #Born

We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our state where crimes can be committed without consequence.
-- Pete Domenici

#Fall #Mexico #Want

Jesse Marcel's unproven story was now primetime mythology. This remote New Mexico town had hit the jackpot. It didn't matter that there wasn't a shred of credible evidence to support the claim that a flying saucer crashed here. It didn't matter that there were no credible witnesses to alien bodies.
-- Peter Jennings

#Support #Flying #Mexico

Poor Mexico. So far from God and so close to the United States.
-- Porfirio Diaz

#Mexico #United States #Poor

Nothing ever happens in Mexico until it happens.
-- Porfirio Diaz

#Mexico

On my recent trip to the Mexico border, Border Patrol agents in California told me they have arrested the same coyotes 20 times, but they are not prosecuted.
-- Ric Keller

#Journey #California #Mexico

Mexico was most powerfully my father's smile and not, as you might otherwise imagine, not language, not pigment.
-- Richard Rodriguez

#Father #Justice #Mexico

People talk about immigration, but they won't talk about the corruption that actually exists between Mexico and the U.S.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#People #Immigration #Mexico

Mexico has many more kidnappings than the United States. The U.S. has very few kidnappings.The reason is, in the United States, we don't pay ransom. We turn it over to the FBI. They catch the person. And then, of course, we used to have the death penalty for it. Now it's life in prison. In Mexico, everybody pays. It's a business...
-- Rudy Giuliani

#Mexico #Ransom #Pay

Los Angeles is not Mexico City, but we have many fine nightclubs and restaurants here. It is enough. One must not aim too high.
-- Ry Cooder

#Cities #Mexico #Los Angeles

Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen.
-- Stephen F. Lynch

#Jobs #Real #Mexico

Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for.
-- Stephen F. Lynch

#Mexican #Democracy #Mexico

I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.
-- Susana Martinez

#Father #Grandmother #Mexico

New Mexico is an environment where we are open for business.
-- Susana Martinez

#Mexico #Environment

In New Mexico, I inherited the largest structural deficit in state history, and our legislature is controlled by Democrats. We don't always agree, but we came together in a bipartisan manner and turned that deficit into a surplus. And we did it without raising taxes.
-- Susana Martinez

#Together #Mexico #Legislature

I'm just looking for a little mystery in life... like things you can't explain. Like, you go to Mexico, they tell you don't drink the water. You go to any diner here, who brings you the water? It's a mystery.
-- Ted Alexandro

#Funny #Water #Mexico

Down to my last dime and coming apart at the seams. I'm messed up in Mexico, living on refried dreams.
-- Tim McGraw

#Dream #Mexico #Lasts

New Mexico is full of brave men and women who have dedicated their lives to service.
-- Tom Udall

#Men #Brave #Mexico

My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
-- Val Kilmer

#Father #Mountain #Mexico

Mexico extends beyond its borders.
-- Vicente Fox

#Mexico #Immigration #Borders

First, to begin with, Mexico is North American; the one that is using wrong the term is United States. United States is not North America. North America is Mexico, United States, and Canada.
-- Vicente Fox

#America #Mexico #Canada

The real end winner of NAFTA is going to be Mexico because we have the human capital. We have that resource that is vital to the success of the U.S. economy.
-- Vicente Fox

#Real #Mexico #Winner

I believe that work can be done on security; in combating terrorism in Mexico we have done our part in this area. But at the same time, the world must continue working.
-- Vicente Fox

#Believe #Mexico #Done

I think it's very important that the United States keeps out of the local electoral process in Mexico.
-- Vicente Fox

#Thinking #Important #Mexico

Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country.
-- Vicente Fox

#Country #Mexico #Loser

We have dignity in Mexico and we have to put a stop to anybody who offends the dignity of Mexico or its institutions.
-- Vicente Fox

#Mexico #Dignity #Institutions

We are not going to build a pressure in Mexico. We're not building walls to retain our people.
-- Vicente Fox

#Wall #People #Mexico

Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.
-- Vicente Fox

#Mexico #Territory

I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can.
-- William H. Seward

#Slavery #France #Mexico

Maybe I'm the badass lady who rids Mexico of drugs, of oppression and illiteracy.
-- Andrea Suarez Paz

#Badass #Drug #Mexico

I am a woman and I am from Mexico, that is true. I am an artist, that is also true. When I work, I hope I'm not a woman from Mexico but an artist in body and spirit.
-- Andrea Suarez Paz

#Artist #Mexico #Body

Mexico is offering a $3.8 million reward for information leading to the capture of the escaped billionaire drug lord, El Chapo. Mexico said they'll get the money by borrowing it from El Chapo.
-- Conan O'Brien

#Offering #Drug #Mexico

Mexico's No. 1 drug lord has escaped from prison and may be headed to the U.S. So Donald Trump was wrong. They ARE sending us their best.
-- Conan O'Brien

#Drug #Mexico #May

I grew up in a highly Hispanic neighborhood. It was very rare to find any race other than Mexicans. I feel very comfortable around Spanish speakers and people from Mexico and people who don't always feel comfortable living in the U.S. because they are in fear of being deported.
-- Emily Rios

#Race #People #Mexico

The war in Iraq is still going on. The British are helping. Mexico wants to help, but they need a ride over there.
-- Felipe Esparza

#War #Iraq #Mexico

I better start doing stand up comedy in Spanish before every comedian in Mexico translates my jokes.
-- Felipe Esparza

#Comedian #Mexico #Comedy

I love my dad. He used to be a professional wrestler in Mexico. So it was cool growing up with him, because when he hit us, he didn't really hit us.
-- Felipe Esparza

#Growing Up #Dad #Mexico

I just came back from - with Trump when I endorsed him in Iowa, in Marshalltown, a little town - 27,000 - have a lot of Hispanics working there from Mexico in a private business, so they're still here. I'm not saying they're here illegally but they still come and they work, make money for their families, send the money back to Mexico or whatever, so it's a big problem.
-- Joe Arpaio

#Iowa #Mexico #Littles

If you mention what he said about rapists from Mexico, there are some that come over - I can prove that with how many I have in the jail system - but I don't think Donald Trump meant that everybody coming over are rapists. Come on, he knows that and I know that.
-- Joe Arpaio

#Thinking #Jail #Mexico

I`m not sure that Enrique Pena expected Donald Trump to take him up on his offer to come to Mexico and meet with him in the short period of time that there is between now and the elections.
-- Jose Diaz-Balart

#Mexico #Election #Trump

There is a lot of people just shaking their heads and wondering, what was really behind this meeting [of Donald Trump and Enrique Pena] as far as from the president of Mexico.
-- Jose Diaz-Balart

#People #President #Mexico

I started in movies in Mexico and started doing telenovelas in Mexico. American Family was the first thing I did in English.
-- Kate del Castillo

#Mexico #Firsts #American Family

I lived in New Mexico until I was seventeen, and honestly I've been homesick ever since I left.
-- Liza Campbell

#Mexico #Homesick #Honestly