Top 1200 Mexican American Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

I've never really fancied Mexican food. A taco rather minds me of a puncture outfit.

Hector Torrez, how can you communicate with Enzo Hernandez when he speaks Spanish and you speak Mexican?

I feel that The American Dream is this fallacy that you come to the United States and win lotto. That's a disservice to The American Dream because the American Dream is worth striving for. And it's not easy.

You know that American dream and American spirit of innovation we always talk about? Turns out, the bulk of it was built by people who came to America from somewhere else, not people born American. We have no birthright or natural lock on these things.

It's okay to treat yourself once in awhile. I'm not going to stop eating Mexican food!

In my high school the Mexican cowboys, the chilangos and rancheros, didn't like the punk rockers.

I think being raised within a Mexican Catholic family made magical realism a very natural part of who I am as a person and as a writer. My parents always told us great stories that often had magical elements and roots within Mexican folklore. Also, I remember my father reading a book to me, when I was very young, about the lives of saints. Those were crazy scary stories! Maybe he was trying to scare me into being a good person. In the end, magical realism offers me untethered freedom to explore human frailty and the way we clumsily cobble together our lives on this strange planet.

There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.

I really hope that what we are doing inspires young Mexican girls not to be afraid to get involved in sports.

My mom was married to a Mexican guy - a surfer - and so we'd kind of camp out on the beach the swell season.

The size of the energy sector in Mexico is just so vast; it has an outsize impact on the rest of the Mexican economy.

Everyone who thinks I'm not Mexican simply because I was born in the United States is wrong.

Now I don't have anything against Mexican people, but for God's sakes, sign the gust book on the way in.

It is hard as an American to support the failure of American military operations in Iraq. Such failure will bring with it the death and wounding of many American service members, and many more Iraqis.

A Romney presidency will be awesome unless you're poor, sick, gay, female, Mexican or a dog.

About Rafa Marquez, I don't think there are enough words to describe what he represents to all Mexican players.

I was stationed in Turkey, Mexico City, South America, Texas, Arizona, so I do know where the Mexican-U.S. border is.

My favourite hangouts are the Mexican restaurant Crazy Homies and the Electric Cinema, both in Notting Hill.

The difference between the American version of 'Live Aid' and the British one - in England, if you wanted a cup of tea, you made it yourself. If you wanted a sandwich, you bought it. In typical American style, at the American concert, there were laminated tour passes and champagne and caviar.

The major international appeal for 'House of Cards' was kind of a surprise because it's a very American show. What we learned is that American politics is very American, but greed and corruption and all of that is very global.

Nondiscrimination is a great American principle. It's a core American principle, as is religious freedom. When you have two important American principles coming into tension, into conflict with one another, our goal as Americans is to sit down and try to see if we can uphold both.

There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.

I make a fabulous tofurkey for Thanksgiving. My Mexican-Italian family can't tell the difference.

The Mexican succumbs very easily to sentimental effusions, and therefore he shuns them.

I like lowriders and music from the '50s and '60s. A lot of people assumed I was Mexican.

I don't like to generalize but I've had nothing but bad experiences with Mexican food in Europe.

Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West. The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American development.

Seeing the Mexican fighters, it gave me, physically and mentally, ready for an all our war.

It's important for a young black kid to see a Mexican hero, just to know that we're all equal.

O.K., if the desire to knock America off its pedestal, to redistribute American income to other countries, to shrink America's footprint in the world, makes you anti-American, then Obama is in fact anti-American.

I apologize for the fact that the word ‘anti-Mexican’ is being said to a black guy in America.

For many Mexican human rights defenders, confronting the military does not end so well.

When confronted with a clear definition of what it is to be Mexican, we encounter ourselves in a never ending allegory of mixes and chaos.

My grandfather always told me, 'You know you're American first, but you're a Greek-American, which makes you a better American.' It sounds sort of old-world and very sweet, but what he meant was that you should embrace those things that are most special and different about you.

I love my molcajete, which is a Mexican mortar and pestle. There is no comparison in flavor to when I use a processor.

The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.

My parents gave me a Mexican name. In our culture, we are named after the events of the day.

Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America.

My bajo sexto, a big Mexican acoustic guitar, comes from a shop in L.A. run by three generations of Mexicans.

I have a real thing for Mexican directors. And I love Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.

We do not have an American culture. We have a white American culture and a black American culture. So when those two groups try to get together, [it's] very difficult because they each feel like they have the right to their culture.

Stephen Miller said, "Over time you would cut net migration in half, which polling shows is supported overwhelmingly by the American people in a very large number." This is why Donald Trump got elected. "It's a major promise to the American people to push for merit-based immigration reform that protects American workers, American taxpayers - protects the American economy - and prioritizes the needs of our citizens, our residents, and our workers. It's pro-America immigration", he said.

We were American citizens. We were incarcerated by our American government in American internment camps here in the United States. The term 'Japanese internment camp' is both grammatically and factually incorrect.

When you take the R sound out of French accent, and you just replace it with an R, it sounds Mexican.

If I win, it sends out a powerful message about the strength of Mexican people.

From the air the Mexican landscape looks as if it had been stirred with a giant spoon.

I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers and I've done that on a lot of my records and played things by American composers that I really respect.

Day of the Dead. Sounds a little spooky doesn't it? It's actually one of the most colorful and joyous of Mexican holidays.

Some segments within the American government orchestrated the attack to reverse the declining American economy, and its grips on the Middle East, in order to save the Zionist regime The majority of the American people as well as most nations and politicians around the world agree with this view.

When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed to nineteenth-century American literature. I became interested in the way that American writers used metaphoric language, starting with Emerson.

We've heard so much about the American dream: well, Trump is the American nightmare made flesh. All the things about 'the ugly American' that we worry about and which the Americans see in themselves, it's all of that. This is a politics of egotistical display.

If I were president of the United States, I'd build a great wall along the Mexican border and not let anybody in.

Make no mistake. This is a war on rural America. ... It is chilling to watch people who joined the military to defend American citizens point rifles on American soil at American citizens and women and children. A sniper rifle is not due process.

Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl.

I didn't know the extent of American obsession with Uganda until I got there and saw it. You ride in the plane and it's filled with American missionaries. Uganda is the No. 1 destination for American missionaries in the world.

I love the Mexican chapulines. These little crickets are beautifully roasted with salt and lime.

I don't like the triumphalism of the American narrative, this kind of "chosen people" complex that American people have, so it's inspiring to see people snub their noses at the American empire and succeed.

The 'American Families Plan' is not about helping American families, it is about redefining what it means to be an American family - allowing for big government to infiltrate Alabamians homes and daily lives.

Yes, I am a Mexican, and I have a past and a culture. But what matters is the film itself, not where it was financed or cast.

Mexican, Mediterranean, Italian, sushi, I love it all. Put it on a plate, and as long as I know what it is, I will eat it.