Clever Quote by Les Baxter

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

The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are…

— Jerry Pournelle

“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

Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.

— Edward Burnett Tylor

“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

And I think for a man whose native tongue is Spanish to be able to put together a phrase like 'cultural genocide' just speaks…

— Robert Downey, Jr

All of a sudden, making a Spanish-American War joke. I think you sort of had to go to probably to an American high school…

— David Mandel

“The slow darkening of the murals as you look from right to left. It seems somehow to symbolise the gradual imposition of the Spaniards’…

— Malcolm Lowry

“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

You have the United States, and you have Mexico, and then you have this Mexican-American thing which is this third culture, which I like…

— Linda Ronstadt

In the case of the brujos, the sorcerers in Mexico, the Spanish Conquest forced them to develop their second attention.

— Frederick Lenz