South America Quotes - Page 3

• There are big surfing communities in every country with an ocean coast that I know in Central and South America. Same with Mexico, Bali, and nearly every island nation that gets waves in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. But that's a relatively recent development in most places.

  William Finnegan

  Country, Ocean, Islands

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've seen villages in South America with no police whatever. Then the cops would arrive, then the sanitary inspectors, and before you know it they've got all the problems - crime, juvenile delinquency, the whole works - just like us.

  William S. Burroughs

  America, Police, Village

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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 it has not valued much.

  Pope Francis

  Country, Believe, America

  Pope Francis' In-Flight Press Conference from Mexico to Rome, www.catholicnewsagency.com. February 18, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We've seen progressive rock all over the world, in South America, Europe, Asia, across the US and North America and Australia. There's huge audiences for this stuff. For me it's always been there and it's just a matter of time before the people have more of the means to spread the word.

  John Petrucci

  Mean, America, Australia

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It didn't seem to have relevance, except in Central America or South America, countries where the church was connected to the fight of the people for economic justice. That's why it was so interesting to find myself back with Sister Helen [in Dead Man Walking], this new breed of nuns who were making a difference in the community.

  Susan Sarandon

  Country, Fighting, Men

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I haven't traveled in Africa nearly as much as I'd like to. I've been there a few times, and I'd like to learn more about the various cultures in Africa. But that's the basis point of where all of the music that I love is based upon, from Africa to Cuba to Puerto Rico to South America.

  Chick Corea

  Love Is, America, Cuba

  11 Copy quote

• Most Americans think of hunger as a problem affecting only places like India, Africa or South America. But it is a tragic reality that our country has millions of children who are suffering from lack of food. We must all work together to save our country from this problem.

  Beverly Johnson

  Country, Children, Reality

  9 Copy quote

• Through the Young Men's Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these countries.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Christian, Country, Men

  7 Copy quote

• I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers.

  Anthony Holden

  Couple, Journey, America

  4 Copy quote

• To be powerful in South America, you have to be transparent and you have to have a very clean reputation. Transparency for me today is a magic word in South America. Power comes from transparency and a track record of execution.

  Eike Batista

  Powerful, America, Track

  4 Copy quote

• As long-term institutions, I am totally against dictatorships. But a dictatorship may be a necessary system for a transitional period... Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism. My personal impression - and this is valid for South America - is that in Chile, for example, we will witness a transition from a dictatorial government to a liberal government.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Government, America, Long

  "El Mercurio" Newspaper, 1981.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sichuan food would not be Sichuanese without the hot chilies that arrived before 1700 from South America.

  Raymond Sokolov

  America, Hot, South

  4 Copy quote

• Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.

  Warren Christopher

  Country, Hymns, Two

  7 Copy quote

• The United States has been an immigrant country. The Hispanics who come here are largely from Mexico and South America. They are Catholics, but that is an American religion. One-third of our population is Catholic so that does not have the same impact as Muslims coming into Europe.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Country, Impact, Europe

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all of the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.

  Frederick Douglass

  Practice, America, Hypocrisy

  What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

  38 Copy quote

  Show source

• What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

  Agatha Christie

  Travel, America, Revolution

  4 Copy quote

• As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Marine, Volcanoes, Opposites

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4987, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'd like to go to Brazil I think. Do a little South America trip.

  Kristanna Loken

  Journey, Thinking, America

  7 Copy quote

• Our atmosphere can't tell the difference between emissions from an Asian factory, the exhaust from a North American SUV, or deforestation in South America or Africa.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Differences, America, Atmosphere

  Ban-Ki moon speech at the United Nations climate change conference in Bali, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2007.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am remarkably likeable. Few people have ever been as likeable as I am. There is, frankly, no end to my likeability. People gather together in public assemblies to discuss how much they like me. I have several awards, and a small medal from a small country in South America which pays tribute both to how much I am liked and my general all around wonderfulness. I don't have it on me, of course. I keep my medals in my sock drawer.

  Neil Gaiman

  Country, Awards, America

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I knew it!" He pumps a fist into the air. "You've fallen in love with me. You want to have my babies. We'll get a team of horses and a covered wagon and we'll journey to South America and raise goats.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Baby, Horse, Team

  4 Copy quote

• I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.

  Jeff Bridges

  Team, America, Groups

  5 Copy quote

• I used to watch a lot of documentaries about Satanic possession - and I don't know if this is racist or not - but in the documentaries, it never happened to Americans! It was always happening in Central America or South America; that's where the priest was always going down to exorcise possessed people. So I didn't have a lot of fear of being possessed by the devil.

  Chuck Klosterman

  America, People, Devil

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Had the Holocaust happened in Tahiti or the Congo, as it has; had it happened in South America, as it has; had it happened in the West Indies, as it has - you must remember that within fifty years of Columbus's arrival, only the bones remained of the people called the Arawaks, with one or two of them in Spain as specimens. Had the Holocaust committed under the Nazis happened somewhere else, we wouldn't be talking about it the way we talk about it.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  West Indies, Talking, Years

  "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is more food in the world than we could possibly use. There's a huge surplus of food per capita, but it's locked away and rotting in the storehouses of the Western world, whereas in the East, in many parts of Africa, India and South America, people are starving to death. Millions of people are dying of starvation in a time in which there is a huge surplus of food.

  Benjamin Creme

  America, People, Dying

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

  6 Copy quote

  Show source