"Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec……" — Edward Burnett Tylor

More Aztec Quotes

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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… — Cesar Chavez
• Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last… — Edward Abbey
• In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great’s… — Charles C. Mann
• In Náhuatl, the language of the Aztec world, one key word for poet was 'tlamatine,' meaning 'the one who knows,'… — Edward Hirsch
• Aztec has played a big part in delivering the solutions that our Dallas office has spent timeless hours and energy… — Blake Lewis
• If the European discovery had been delayed for a century or two, it is possible that the Aztec in Mexico… — Samuel Eliot Morison
• If you want a television, you go out and work for it and you buy it. If you want to… — Andrew Harvey
• In essence, the Mexica remained little more than a band of pirates, sallying forth from their great city to loot… — Eric Wolf
• To put it in a nutshell, the Central and South American high cultures of antiquity were entirely worthy of comparison… — Joseph Needham
• The Spaniards are perfectly right to govern these barbarians of the New World and adjacent islands; they are in prudence,… — Juan Gines de Sepulveda
• The Aztec gods and goddesses are, as far as we have known anything about them, an unlovely and unlovable lot.… — D. H. Lawrence
• Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying… — Sarah Vowell

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