Aztec Quotes
17 quotes by 17 authors
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A symbol is an important thing. That is why we chose an Aztec eagle. It gives pride...When people see it they know it means dignity.
— Cesar Chavez
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Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach…
— Edward Abbey
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In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great’s expanding Russia, bigger than Songhay…
— Charles C. Mann
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In Náhuatl, the language of the Aztec world, one key word for poet was 'tlamatine,' meaning 'the one who knows,' or 'he who knows something.'…
— Edward Hirsch
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Aztec has played a big part in delivering the solutions that our Dallas office has spent timeless hours and energy searching for.
— Blake Lewis
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If the European discovery had been delayed for a century or two, it is possible that the Aztec in Mexico or the Iroquois in North…
— Samuel Eliot Morison
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If you want a television, you go out and work for it and you buy it. If you want to learn about Aztec pottery, you…
— Andrew Harvey
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In essence, the Mexica remained little more than a band of pirates, sallying forth from their great city to loot and plunder and to submit…
— Eric Wolf
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To put it in a nutshell, the Central and South American high cultures of antiquity were entirely worthy of comparison with what the Old World…
— Joseph Needham
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The Spaniards are perfectly right to govern these barbarians of the New World and adjacent islands; they are in prudence, ingenuity, virtue, and humanity as…
— Juan Gines de Sepulveda
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The Aztec gods and goddesses are, as far as we have known anything about them, an unlovely and unlovable lot. In their myths there is…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.
— Edward Burnett Tylor
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Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when…
— Sarah Vowell
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See it was like this when we waltz into this place. A couple of papish cats is doing an Aztec two-step And I says Dad…
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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The decorator of Las Colimas must have been a great admirer of both early Aztec and late Taco Bell architectural styles.
— Ilona Andrews
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My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages.…
— Poppy Delevingne
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Now tequila may be the favoured beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential treatment. In fact, tequila probably has betrayed as…
— Tom Robbins
Who Wrote These Aztec Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 17 Aztec Quotes as follows: