188 Quotes About Mexico

It had grown darker now; it was full night already, with the swiftness of the mountainous latitudes. The square of sky over the patio was soft and dark as indigo velour, with magnificent stars like many-legged silver spiders festooned on its underside. Below them the white roses gleamed phosphorescently in the starlight, with a magnesium-like glow. There was a tiny splash from the depths of the well as a pebble or grain of dislodged earth fell in. ("The Moon Of Montezuma")

Did you attend church last Sunday?” I asked with no warning. The men all looked at each other.“No, sir. At least I wasn’t at church this past Sunday,” the old man answered first. The others followed and mumbled their negation under their breath."Aha, did you happen to find the irrefutable evidence that God is nonexistent?"“No, sir!

Our power comes from the earth

El tamaño del narcotráfico en México equivale a la magnitud de la corrupción.

What have I to fear but starvation?" Kino asked.

The two bodies lay in plain sight of the shuttered Salt Bingo Casino, though there are no witnesses other than a coyote and its jackrabbit prey. The two bodies lay still until the sun-cracked it is light over the Arizona desert like a sky egg.

This land was Mexican once, was Indian always and is.And will be again.

Bent double, groaning with the weight, an old lame Indian was carrying on his back, by means of a strap looped over his forehead, another poor Indian, yet older and more decrepit than himself. He carried the older man and his crutches, trembling in every limb under this weight of the past, he carried both their burdens.

La semana santa propicia despliegues de teatralidad insulsa, tan cara al alma mexicana y a sus conflictos esenciales: la madre gime porque su hijo está en problemas, y los hijos sangran porque los abandonó su padre.