The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self-government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race. — Albert J. Beveridge
This country [the Philippines] is like a pyramid, like a tower. It is made up of millions of stones... . And the foundation stone of this pyramid is the common man. — Ramon Magsaysay
Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world. — Douglas MacArthur
I want our people to be like a molave tree, strong and resilient, standing on the hillsides, unafraid of the rising tide, lighting and the storm, confident of its strength. — Manuel L. Quezon
A country of victims is also a country of heroes, risking their lives so others will live. This is the Philippines, the country we love. — Tony Meloto
What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets. — Andre Malraux
General Otis is proclaimed American Military Governor of the Philippines and I protest a thousand times and with all the force in my soul against such pretension. — Emilio Aguinaldo
We've got Chinese, white, black and mixed; but remember that our colors are cheap, for after many years of contracts and tricks nobody's purity runs very deep. — Nicolas Guillen
The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green. — Francis Bacon
We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice. — Marc Maron
Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails. — Plato
Man, is an indivisible entity, an integrated unit of mind and body. — Mike Mentzer
I'm from where the real hustlers pile dough, the home of Rich Rich Porter, Azie, Alpo. — Big L
In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms. — Felix Marti-Ibanez
I've always fought for my country, in my own way, showing that Filipinos are a strong people and can do anything that they put their minds to. — Manny Pacquiao
Short Manila Quotes
It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila. — Muhammad Ali
You are all so lucky to be living here. If I live in Manila I would definitely live in Azure. — Paris Hilton
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. — Clifton Fadiman
For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. — Clifton Fadiman
Manila Image Quotes
Philippine Quotes
They must go near the Philippines, a U.S. ally, before trying to get through the Strait of Malacca between Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia, all of which are diplomatically and militarily tied to the U.S. — Tim Marshall
I went to Philippines and I literally had the time of my life. — Christina Grimmie
Sushi’s from Japan, he’s from the Philippines dummy. — Dana White
The Church in the Philippines is called to acknowledge and combat the causes of the deeply rooted inequality and injustice which mar the face of Filipino society, plainly contradicting the teaching of Christ. — Pope Francis
We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it. — F. Sionil José
[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 the Philippines ... We must slaughter a million or two foolish Malays in order to give them the comforts of flannel petticoats and electric railways. — Henry Adams
When you have some kid, who works for Twitter in the Philippines, censoring a Nobel prize winning scientist, speaking about his area of expertise, I think we've lost the plot. — Konstantin Kisin
If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France, and still less Holland, will dare to take up what Spain has been unable to hold. — Jose Rizal
The big nest was in Afghanistan, thats not quite cleared, then there are nests in the Philippines, there are nests in Indonesia, the Malaysians are clearing up their nests. — Lee Kuan Yew
Discover how beautiful our country is and how wonderful our people are. Time to fall in love with the Philippines. — Tony Meloto
I believe that Manila can be a reflection of your state of mind. Being a city of extreme contrasts it's easy to see how it can become an intense personal experience. Manila can be chaotic and spiritual, dirty and divine, gritty and gorgeous all at once. If you don't find beauty and poetry here, you will never find it anywhere. — Carlos Celdran
Manila is a city of extremes. The poor are very poor and the rich very rich. A constant reminder to the rich that there is another side to life. — Arlene J. Chai
You can’t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca, the Cathedral, the bordello. The shopping mall, the urinal, the discotheque. I’m hardly speaking in metaphor. It’s the most impermeable of cities. How does one convey all that? — Miguel Syjuco
Not in this specific form. But all great cities are inhabited by ghosts. A book of this kind could probably be written about Jakarta, Manila, or London by anyone who had a feeling for the invisible truths of those places. — Teju Cole
Yes, Manila had its slums; one saw them on the drive from the airport: vast districts of men in dirty white undershirts lounging idly in front of auto-repair shops - like a poorer version of the 1950s America depicted in such films as Grease. — Mohsin Hamid
All the fabulous and fearless writers gathered here, whether they are living in Manila, the US, or elsewhere in the ever-growing Philippine diaspora, have a deep connection and abiding love for this crazy-making, intoxicating city. There's nothing like it in the world, and they know it. — Jessica Hagedorn
Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila folder full of statistics. — Jack Newfield
I came from the Philippines and Filipinos are incredibly musical. I mean the best cover bands in the world come from Manila! — June Millington
And don't worry, if I get thrown in jail in Manila, Beyonce will just bail me out. Sold out night 2 in the Philippines. I love it here! — Lady Gaga
Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi Patel my name. Have some food, some water, but Bengal tiger a serious problem. Please advise family in Winnepeg, Canada. Any help very much appreciated. Thank you. — Yann Martel
I wrote short stories for seven years and used to mail them out. You couldn't send them by e-mail. I called them manila boomerangs. I'd seal the self-addressed stamped envelope inside an envelope and I'd mail it off, and it would come back six weeks later with a rejection letter in it. — Jess Walter
The people want government that works for them at every level. They want good government that begins at their doorstep in the barangay, and does not end before the closed door of a bureaucrat in Metro Manila. — Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call center in Manila. — Timothy Noah
In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there'd been in other towns -- Paragould, Lepanto, and Manila. — John Grisham
As past presidents of the Liberal Party, we deeply regret and are greatly saddened by the precipitate action by some party officers and members at the Manila Hotel. — Florencio Abad
My art school rejection letter arrived as a cold manila fist that closed around my fragile hopes ... The fear was practically edible. Nothing would happen unless I get out and make it happen. Then, as if handling me the keys to the jet pack, my dad bought me a typewriter and a taped message to the inside of its case: "Son - the world is waiting to hear from you". — Grant Morrison
And the reason I am writing this on the back of a manila envelope now that they have left the train together is to tell you that when she turned to lift the large, delicate cello onto the overhead rack, I saw him looking up at her and what she was doing the way the eyes of saints are painted when they are looking up at God when he is doing something remarkable, something that identifies him as God. — Billy Collins
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