Peru Quotes

• If you like trekking, go to the Himalayas or Peru. I love those kinds of trips. But it all depends on your own life and what you like and what you expect.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Travel, Kind, Himalayas

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• Going to Peru is, well, if you ever have an opportunity in your life to go there, you should do it because it is absolutely mind boggling.

  Dean Stockwell

  Travel, Opportunity, Mind

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• The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard -it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

  E. M. Forster

  Love, Men, Ideas

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• I would not change my native landFor rich Peru with all her gold

  Isaac Watts

  Gold, Rich, Native

  Isaac Watts (1855). “Dr. Watts's Divine and Moral Songs, etc”, p.4

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• The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.

  Horace Walpole

  New York, Discovery, Boston

  Letter to Horace Mann, 24 Nov. 1774 See Macaulay 9

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• Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru.

  Tracy Kidder

  Russia, Boston, Sick

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• The investor knows quite well that we don't have anymore the widespread terrorism here in Peru.

  Alberto Fujimori

  Terrorism, Wells, Investors

  Interview with Lucia Newman, www.cnn.com. January 8, 1997.

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• We can only love what we know.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Love, Rebuilding, Knows

  Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) (1826). “A Legacy for Young Ladies: Consisting of Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Verse”, p.125

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• Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything, but not if you put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don’t expect Carter or Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself.

  John Lennon

  Dream, Jesus, Parking Meters

  John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

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• It's not that weird, but when I was in Peru, I ate a guinea pig. If you're going to eat guinea pig, you call it cuy. Cute word for such a cute little animal that I ate a few times.

  Nick Kroll

  Cute, Animal, Pigs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Let observation with observant view,
  Observe mankind from China to Peru.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Travel, Views, China

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• If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new. We are told that the oldest inhabitants in Peru do not cease to be agitated by the earthquakes, but they probably see beyond each shock, and reflect that there are plenty more to come.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Earthquakes, Hopeful

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2528, Delphi Classics

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• Yes, I’m proud to be indigenous. I’m half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.

  Q'orianka Kilcher

  Half, Proud, Indigenous

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• If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket; and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66)

  Victor Hugo

  America, Love At First Sight, Dancer

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• Peru score their third, and It's 3-1 to Scotland.

  David Coleman

  Soccer, Football, Scotland

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• Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. Thats half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Country, Land, People

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• Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Egypt, Doors

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• I have the deepest regret about 9/11. Sept. 11, 2001, was one of the most difficult days I've ever had. I was in Lima, Peru, and had to fly back eight hours not knowing what happened in my own country, knowing thousands of my fellow citizens had died.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Regret, Eight

  "Secretary of State Colin Powell". Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 25, 2004.

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• Do you want to go back to Vienna?” he said. Alec didn’t answer, just stared into space. “Or we could go somewhere else,” said Magnus. “Anywhere you want. Thailand, South Carolina, Brazil, Peru – Oh, wait, no, I’m banned from Peru. I’d forgotten about that. It’s a long story, but amusing if you want to hear it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Somewhere Else, Space, Long

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for our investments. This tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Colombia and Peru. Increasingly the role our nation has taken is the role of those who refuse to give up the privileges and pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Giving Up, Taken, America

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• Quiet, moving, masterfully crafted. Such are the nine stories in Venus in the Afternoon. Tehila Lieberman writes with precision, restraint, with a compassionate heart. She inhabits her characters, young or old, men or women, honestly, but without judgment, until they rise off the page and stand before us breathing and alive. New York, the Atacama desert, Amsterdam or Cuzco in Peru, the settings in Venus in the Afternoon are just as varied as the lives which they contain. A wonderful collection, one that will stay in your mind long after you have bid it goodbye.

  Miroslav Penkov

  Goodbye, New York, Moving

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• Baby's room should be close enough to your room so that you can hear baby cry, unless you want to get some sleep, in which case baby's room should be in Peru.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Dave Barry (1984). “Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have Around the Home”, p.19, Rodale

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• Much had he read, Much more had he seen; he studied from the life, And in th' original perus'd mankind.

  John Armstrong

  Life, Mankind, Originals

  John Armstrong (2011). “John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice”, p.119, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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• The daredevil aspect to what I did there is moving a monstrously big ship over a mountain in the jungle of Peru with 800 or 900 or so native people from the area. So that idea was wild but the way it was executed was prudent. Nobody was ever hurt and when it became clear that we had to be more secure with the posts that would hold the ship, I spent 12 days having a post built that would have withstood the force of 10 times the weight of my ship.

  Werner Herzog

  Hurt, Moving, Ideas

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I can never see fashion models,
  lean angular cheeks, strutting hips
  and blooming hair, without thinking of
  the skulls at the catacombs in Lima, Peru.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Fashion, Thinking, Hair

  Naomi Shihab Nye (1994). “Red Suitcase: Poems”, p.93, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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