Believe Quote by Jerry Pournelle

“Aztlán (“The Place of the Reeds”) was the traditional home of the Aztecs, a possibly mythical motherland from which the tribe ventured forth on…

— Luis Alberto Urrea

That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.

— Les Baxter

“These paintings say Mexico is an ancient thing that will still go on forever telling its own story in slabs of color leaves and…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Marco Polo had been to China; Vasco de Gama had discovered the route to the Cape. The continent was in ferment, in movement, whereas…

— Carlos Fuentes

“That's what people say about Mexico," Morgan said, "a death culture, the Indians and their blood sacrifices mixed with all the Moorish-Christianity of the…

— Janet Hobhouse

It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time,…

— A. A. Gill

A millennium before Europeans were willing to divest themselves of the Biblical idea that the world was a few thousand years old, the Mayans…

— Carl Sagan

Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.

— Edward Burnett Tylor

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

— Norman Spinrad

“The arrival of the Spaniards must have been like the arrival of people from Mars to us would be today. The shock must have…

— Carlos Fuentes

“That was the end of my adventure in Central America. By the lakeshore in Granada, Nicaragua, I decided to turn for home. I wondered…

— Patrick Marnham

The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats.

— Carlos Fuentes