Mexico Quotes

If you listen to [Donald] Trump, he's going to make sure we get our jobs back from Mexico, and jobs back from China. Now, he's mentioned Vietnam, we're going to get the jobs back from Vietnam.

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.

When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that people could do.

Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states.

The relationship of the United States with Mexico is a matter for the United States and Mexico.

My mother is the war,' declares Roger Mexico, leaning over to open the door.

The first time I went to Mexico, it was really difficult. Number one is the language, I didn't know any Spanish language. Of course, the culture itself. Very different from where I grew up.

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.

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.

I think that Walter De Maria's Lightning Field, Michael Heizer's City, and Charles Ross's work in Star Axis New Mexico , all three will last for a millennium.

What has miserable, inefficient Mexico...to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?

In Mexico your wishes have a dream power. When you want to see someone, he turns up.

There are parts of L.A. that feel very, very Mexican, and there are weird little enclaves of Northside in Mexico - Cancún for instance. So what is a border?

I'm pretty sure I ate ants in Mexico.

If you build a wall they won't come.

Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.

Summertime is always the best of what might be.

I’d heard street food was a big thing here in Mexico but I didn’t think it meant the creatures that lived on the street.

To reduce poetry to its reflections of historical events and movements would be like reducing the poet's words to their logical or grammatical connotations.

When you turn around, you'll see something I bet you've never seen before. If it takes your breath away, then you'll fit in nicely. If you don't feel anything, then maybe you don't belong here.

Stallions, " Frank said, "they're fightin' over a girl. - DANIEL'S ESPERANZA

Poverty in western Mexico is an Unconditional Sentence.

Our power comes from the earth

The giant beech next door intends to shiver off every hair of its pelt.

The United States is democratic because its people live in conformity. It is the perfect country for mice.

Even amidst tragedy there is laughter, sometimes farce. The degree of farce depends on who is running the tragedy.

For in Mexico, ladies and gentlemen, it's always high noon and what glows is fuchsia and what's dead is dead and no feather-dusters.

He wasn't a patient. I expect someone cured him. You cure a lot of people in this country, don't you, with bullets?

…my books are derived from city images, and the city of my dreams or nightmares is Mexico City. (The Art of Fiction, No. 68. The Paris Review, No. 82, Winter 1981.)

It seems to be Latin American destiny to always have the United States say 'amen.

I propose changing fear for hope. I propose changing Mexico.

When I was in college, my graduation thesis was called 'Female Directors.' I interviewed all of the important female directors from Mexico. There were four. That was it.

What I miss most about Mexico isn't the food or the customs it's my family and the way we'd all sit around chatting together.

There are great legends and great fighters in the history of Mexico, and there will be more to come.