South America Quotes

• When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Inspirational, Funny, Country

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• A million butterflies rose up from South America, All together, and flew in a gold storm toward Spain.

  Winfield Townley Scott

  Butterfly, America, Rose

  Winfield Townley Scott (1967). “New and selected poems”

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• You must not judge people by their country. In South America, it is always wise to judge people by their altitude.

  Paul Theroux

  Wise, Country, America

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.295, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states.

  Tennessee Williams

  America, Doors, Mexico

  Tennessee Williams (2009). “The Night of the Iguana”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

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• I've had a great time in South America and South Africa. Indeed it now seems that on this pair of wild hot continents I've enjoyed the most fruitful year of my life.

  John Muir

  Years, America, Hot

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.872, The Mountaineers Books

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• I'd love to go somewhere warm, somewhere near the beach and somewhere with a cool culture. It could be Hawaii, Cuba, South America - anywhere that has a cool culture and a beautiful climate.

  Steve Nash

  Beautiful, Beach, America

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Enthusiasm is a wonderful thing. In South America they throw flowers to you. In Greece Greeks throw themselves.

  Melina Mercouri

  Flower, America, Greek

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• Traveling is a great love of mine. I love South America and Africa. I'm your ultimate backpacker when I'm away. It's just me and my backpack. It's good for getting away from the industry.

  Matthew McConaughey

  America, Great Love, Get Away

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But I confess that "my mind to me a kingdom is" - not! Rather it is a fantastical republic, daily troubled by more revolutions than ever occurred in South America.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  America, Mind, Republic

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Gleanings in Buddha-Fields (Annotated Edition)”, p.62, Jazzybee Verlag

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• [ Uncle Sam] is not sending 20 billion dollars to South America because he loves those people down here. He's sending it - sending it to them because he needs their friendship, he needs their allegion - their allegiance.

  Malcolm X

  Uncles, America, People

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• Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America.

  Louis Leakey

  Islands, Years, America

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• All people of African descent, whether they live in North or South America, the Caribbean, or in any part of the world are Africans and belong to the African nation.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  America, People, World

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• If an American is concerned only about his nation, he will not be concerned about the peoples of Asia, Africa, or South America. Is this not why nations engage in the madness of war without the slightest sense of penitence? Is this not why the murder of a citizen of your own nation is a crime, but the murder of citizens of another nation in war is an act of heroic virtue?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, America, Citizens

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Argentina won't be at Euro 2000 because they're from South America.

  Kevin Keegan

  America, Argentina, Kevin

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• The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination.

  James Monroe

  War, America, Long

  James Monroe (199?). “The Writings of James Monroe: 1817-1823”

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• Jesus appeared unto the ancient Nephites, in the northern part of what we call South America.

  Orson Pratt

  Jesus, America, Ancient

  "The Seer", Volume 1, Number 2, (p. 26-27), 1853.

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• For the Second Amendment to do its job, the other side must become much better informed. I watched an action-adventure program last night that asserted that the famous AK-47 - the original peoples' rifle (and Authority's greatest mistake) - is rare in this country, and that the only ones here were originally smuggled in from the Middle East, or possibly from South America. The idiots who wrote this mess seemed unaware that after legal imports - mostly from China - were illegally cut off by executive order, they began to be manufactured here.

  L. Neil Smith

  Country, Jobs, Mistake

  "Tastes Like Chicken". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. March 28, 2010.

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• Other countries may boast of this and that, but nobody can touch the United States for poisonous snakes. We have about twenty species, most of them deadly, and Europe has only five or six, none of them much good. We have fifteen kinds of Rattlesnakes alone and nobody else has even one. [Footnote: There is a species in Central and South America, but it probably came from here.]

  Will Cuppy

  Country, Europe, Snakes

  "How to Become Extinct". Book by Will Cuppy, 1941.

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• Everywhere - all over Africa and South America - you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There's a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And they're terrifying, because they are the death of the soul. This is the prison this planet is being turned into.

  J. G. Ballard

  America, People, Soul

  October 30, 1982 Interview, Re/Search, No. 8/9, 1984.

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• You can’t hate the roots of the tree without ending up hating the tree. You can’t hate your origin without ending up hating yourself. You can’t hate the land, your motherland, the place that you come from, and we can’t hate Africa without ending up hating ourselves. The Black man in the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central America, South America, and in the Caribbean—is the best example of how one can be made, skillfully, to hate himself that you can find anywhere on this earth.

  Malcolm X

  Hate, Men, America

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• I've been to Japan, I've been to China, I've been to Africa, I've been to the Middle East, I've been to Europe a little bit. I've never been to South America.

  Colin Quinn

  Japan, Europe, America

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• Marcus Garvey was one of the first advocates of Black Power, and is still today the greatest spokesman ever to have been produced by the movement of Black Consciousness...He spoke to all Africans on the earth, whether they lived in Africa, South America, the West Indies or North America, and he made Blacks aware of their strength when united.

  Walter Rodney

  West Indies, America, Black

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• He's a tremendous breath of fresh air. The things he [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge papal mansion and just dropped by in the dining room where ordinary people have meals. You think of his background, where he didn't use limousines in South America, that he used public transport. I'm so, so thrilled that he is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.

  Desmond Tutu

  Thinking, Our World, Air

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Pope Francis announced that next year he is coming to the United States, or as Fox News is reporting it, 'Obama lets in yet another guy from South America.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Years, America, Guy

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• Imagine, to become a priest there are eight years of study and preparation, and then if after a while you can't do it, you can ask for a dispensation, you leave, and everything is OK. On the other hand, to make a sacrament (marriage), which is for your whole life, three to four conferences...Preparation for marriage is very important. It's very, very important because I believe it is something that in the Church, in common pastoral ministry, at least in my country, in South America, the Church has not valued much.

  Pope Francis

  Country, Believe, Hands

  "Full text of Pope Francis' in-flight interview from Mexico to Rome". www.catholicnewsagency.com. February 18, 2016.

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