Mexico City Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Mexico City Quotes from famous persons: Bret Stephens, Jaime Camil, Louis van Gaal, Seth Berkley, Cathy Marie Buchanan. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Mexico City Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

I grew up in Mexico City at a time when the country was a repressive one-party dictatorship almost wholly dependent on oil revenues.

Bret Stephens

I love theater. That’s what I did in Mexico City. I did a lot of musical theater, and it’s where my heart is.

Jaime Camil

With Ajax, I played Mexico in Mexico City, and our players could hardly keep up for half the match.

Louis van Gaal

Land degradation, rising sea levels, famine, and conflict will continue to drive people from their homes and towards cities, with megacities like Mexico City and Lagos becoming increasingly common in some of the poorest parts of the world.

Seth Berkley

A tour of the Mexico City of Diego Rivera and Frieda Kahlo led by Barbara Kingsolver would be nice. And I certainly wouldn’t turn down a tour of Johannes Vermeer’s Delft led by Tracey Chevalier.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

We played at a festival in Mexico City, at the same time as another famous artist, and I reckon we had 55,000 people watching New Order; the other had 7,000. I think from that I’ve discovered the secret of success in the music industry: don’t do any promotion.

Bernard Sumner

I finally, you know, moved to Mexico City, where the film industry is. I started working there as a producer, which is a very, very valid thing for women to do, because we always produce for men, right?

Patricia Riggen

I’ve lived in other cities – Rome, Dublin, Mexico City – but I was born in New York City, and I always lived in those other places as a New Yorker.

Pete Hamill

I was born in Mexico because my father was teaching at a school in Mexico City. I was born during the third year he was there. And when I was 16, I returned to Mexico to learn Spanish.

Lupita Nyong’o

Many Mexican directors are scared to shoot in Mexico City, which is why there are many stories in Mexican cinema about little rural towns, or set a hundred years ago.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I was stationed in Turkey, Mexico City, South America, Texas, Arizona, so I do know where the Mexican-U.S. border is.

Joe Arpaio

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 now, in Mexico City. That’s a weird legend.

Jerry Pournelle

It was in 1942 and I flew from St. Louis to Mexico City. I had just gotten married and we were on our honeymoon. I hit .397 and led the Mexican League with 20 home runs and was named the MVP of the league. It’s when I realized I could compete with anyone at any level.

Monte Irvin

I attended elementary school and high school in Mexico City. I was already fascinated by science before entering high school; I still remember my excitement when I first glanced at paramecia and amoebae through a rather primitive toy microscope.

Mario J. Molina

What Mexico City cannot do and my country cannot do is to allow us to be intimidated, the authorities to be intimidated, by organized crime.

Enrique Pena Nieto

I think the fact that my wife died in Mexico City makes it very important to me; my life went up in smoke at that moment, the family and the future we were going to have. At that point, I was anchored to the city in a way I’ve never been anchored to a place before.

Francisco Goldman

Without social media, I wouldn’t have young girls messaging me from Australia or Mexico City or the Midlands, but I do wonder if I’d be on it if it wasn’t part of my job.

Adwoa Aboah

I’m Chief Executive Officer at Art of the Olympians Museum in Fort Myers, Florida, which was founded by my Mexico City teammate Al Oerter and his wife Cathy in 2005. It shows that Olympians can have another life; we have got art from more than 100 Olympians.

Bob Beamon

As a city, it is always compelling. But every day in Mexico City, I give thanks that I am alive.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I feel absolutely no threat or fear in Mexico City.

Michael Nyman

When I was eight, I started what could be considered my first business, performing magic shows in Mexico City.

Daniel Lubetzky

I’ll tell you what makes me feel worthwhile: organizing and solving other people’s problems. It makes me feel good to go to Mexico City and figure out theories on how you can reorganize and reduce crime. To me, it’s one of the more fulfilling ways to spend a day.

Rudy Giuliani

I started as a model in Mexico – I was traveling, but my base was in Mexico City. And then I studied acting for three years.

Stephanie Sigman

I was born in Mexico, I am from Mexico City.

Paulina Rubio

I was taken out of school by my dad when I was 11 and lived in Mexico City, then later in Paris. I went with him to excavate in Bolivia and Peru. I never finished high school. I was a straight F student anyway. My father admitted to me later that he’d thought I would come to no good.

Michael Heizer

I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City.

Placido Domingo

In Mexico City, I lived the efforts of the Mexican capital and I was happy.

Raul Jimenez

My parents are from Mexico City.

Henry Cejudo

Have you ever been to Mexico City and haggled with the locals over souvenirs? Well, in Peru, you had to negotiate like that to get the freshest fish at the market.

Nobu Matsuhisa

I love Sam Mendes, but I went to see ‘Spectre’ with my kid, and the opening scene of the Dia de Muertos party, with this kind of tropical music, in downtown Mexico City, with all these people dancing like it’s the Rio de Janeiro carnival… I had to laugh.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Mexico City is being used as a laboratory to send the message throughout the rest of Mexico that the Left can govern. That here, it can be different, and it can actually get things under control and provide an alternative to the National Action Party and its conservative views.

Denise Dresser

The beauty standards had nothing to do with me in Mexico. It was such a bizarre, dire time for my hair. I was living in a small town where there was not any semblance of an African community. I’d have to take the bus to Mexico City to find a woman who could braid my hair. That was two and a half hours away.

Lupita Nyong’o

Texas has an established trade office in Mexico City, as do other Texan cities. They have a more mature trade relationship with Mexico, and I want to make Arizona a leader in this area also.

Doug Ducey

I’ve always thought Mexico City was incredibly dynamic.

Greg Kinnear

The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.

Alma Guillermoprieto

Really, Mexico City has always been this big, complex monster of a city that has always had real problems and needs, and I’ve always found my way through it in different ways.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

If you read the poets of the 19th century in Latin America, you would see that Havana or Mexico City or Buenos Aires are incredibly modern and global cities that they were not. And eventually they became real, and they became real because people read these books and tried to live in a better world.

Alvaro Enrigue

Antonio Sanchez is from Mexico City. I met him at a Pat Metheny concert. He did a solo, and I thought, ‘This is an octopus man!’

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

My mother was a great storyteller and a great historian in her own way. She only made it to third grade. She came from Mexico City at the tail end of the Mexican Revolution and that kind of turmoil and chaos and frenzy and also excitement.

Juan Felipe Herrera

When I was in the navy, I wanted to go to Paris and the Academie Julian. I never did. Mexico City took me instead.

Pete Hamill

My grandmother and my mom and my aunt Aurelia, my grandmother Juanita, my mom Lucia – we lived on the outskirts of a barrio in Mexico City called Tepito, and Tepito for many, many decades was the largest barrio in Mexico and perhaps even Latin America.

Juan Felipe Herrera

I backpacked around the world and went to places like Mexico City and Pakistan, where I’m like, ‘Oh. Things aren’t quite as good.’

Jeffrey Skoll

I would love to fight in Mexico City.

Henry Cejudo

When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology.

Mary Doria Russell

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