13 Quotes by Ambeth R. Ocampo

You are like a garbage man, what will you do with my life story? Para kang nangangalakal ng basura!

...make your children unhappy so they can face the world, but then, what is a world without children's laughter?

If there was anyone ma-porma during the Fil-American War, it was Heneral Goyo.

These Filipinos will be your worst enemies if you commit the imprudence of attacking the Spaniards without the necessary preparation.

It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home.

Sometimes it pays not to be interested in what happened but in what did not happen.

As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.

Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are always changing. This is what makes history exciting – that we can always find something new in what is old.

School made us ‘literate’ but did not teach us to read for pleasure.