#mexican

Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico, the astonishing thing is, nobody wears these hats at all. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#big #come #everyone #hats #mexicans

Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#everything #mexican #really #spanish

At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#any #anybody #been #beginning #commanded

I can recall back in 1998, in August of that year, when we had a horrible disaster along the Mexican border in the town of Del Rio. At the time, FEMA was the shining star of the federal government. It's now perceived as many to be the dullest knife in the drawer. Right or wrong, that's the perception. ↗

— Henry Bonilla

#august #back #border #del #disaster

Well, we have a crisis along the Mexican border right now, a state of emergency as declared by a bipartisan group of Texas House members just last fall. You know, we've had almost 200,000 OTMs - the government categorizes OT 'other, other than Mexicans' - along the Mexican border. ↗

— Henry Bonilla

#along #bipartisan #border #crisis #declared

People used to say my son looked like a Mexican Biggie. And when he was first born, memories of Biggie... you know, we didn't always have the greatest days. For at least half the length of our marriage we were separated, so everyday was definitely not a good day. ↗

— Faith Evans

#biggie #born #day #days #definitely

I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#audience #certain #contexts #depending #i

It's just something I've always done. In South Texas, the first guitar you get is a Mexican guitar. And the first one I got, the first thing I did was take it apart. ↗

— Guy Clark

#apart #did #done #first #first thing

First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids. ↗

— Bill Condon

#first #first of all #grew #had #just

If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name? ↗

— Billy Connolly

#first #how #jesus #jew #mexican