Being Proud To Be Mexican Quotes & Sayings

Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death. — Juvenal

I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a "label" than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taught. — Erin Gruwell

The denunciation and smearing of truly gifted people like Rodriguez - people the Chicano community should be proud of - by the self-appointed gatekeepers of Chicano Studies is, alas, an everyday spectacle. (Did anyone in the Chicano Studies community even take note when Dana Gioia, who is one of the best poets of his generation and happens to be half Mexican American, was named chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts in 2002? No, because he made it on his merits and not by being a victimization hustler.) — Bruce Bawer

My son, he is the reason I got involved. It's been a joy to be around him and teach him the stuff that I know, and to the other kids as well. When he started playing I wanted to be involved in his hockey career. It's a lot of fun for both of us. — Mario Lemieux

There is room in the halls of pleasure for a large and lordly train, but one by one we must all file on through the narrow aisles of pain. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The 'Elves' are 'immortal', at least as far as this world goes: and hence are concerned rather with the griefs and burdens of deathlessness in time and change, than with death. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Be so positive and optimistic that people give up trying to contain you. — Matthew Barnett

I've redone plays of mine and made changes. A play is a living thing, and I'd never say I wouldn't rewrite years later. Tennessee Williams did that all the time, and it's distressing, because I'd like the play to be out there in its finished form. — Horton Foote

How do I know what I think until I see what I say? — E. M. Forster