Astronaut Quote by Vladimir Kovalyov

“Rain in Metro Manila is like a love affair: Short and fleeting; or torrid and flooding with tragic casualties left in its wake.”

— John Pucay

“Rising up into the air, they took to the sky and flew. From west and beyond west, into the wind and through it, they…

— Pat O'Shea

“When we arrived, the sun was setting, like a mango sorbet dripping over the horizon; the platinum rolls of the Mediterranean produced the soothing…

— Richard C. Morais

“Truly the Filipino rises to his finest self during trying times, the more trying the times, the finer the rising. Or it is in…

— Conrado De Quiros

The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people.

— Jose Rizal

There is so much more to the Philippines than just Manila. The beauty is in the neighboring islands.

— Pia Wurtzbach

“The hustle and bustle everywhere, so many carriages and cabs at a dash, Europeans, Chinese, and natives, each dressed after their own fashion, fruit…

— José Rizal

“We sailed for more days than I knew how to count, sometimes hugging the mainland coast, sometimes passing from one island to another over…

— Esther M. Friesner

“The cold wind blew unceasingly from the north: a violent wind, a merciless wind, a wind that crept inside your ears and pressed hard…

— John Forrester

“Storms bring the detritus of other people's lives into our own, a reminder that we are not alone, and of how truly insignificant we…

— Karen White

“We were friends and have become estranged. But this was right, and we do not want to conceal and obscure it from ourselves as…

— Roland Barthes

[regarding US conquest of the Philippines] "I turn green in bed at midnight if I think of the horror of a year's warfare in…

— Henry Adams