Latina American Quotes

#1. Why does doing the right thing feel so bad?

James Patterson

#2. I was around in 1970, and now I am around in 2015 ... there is no poetry and very little romance in anything anymore, so it is really like the last phase of 'American Pie.'

Don McLean

#3. Love is strange. One minute you're jungle fever. The next you're Arctic winter.

Ellen Hopkins

#4. To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina ... means a lot to me.

Zoe Saldana

#5. In every man, there were two beings: one the spiritual, seeking only that kind of happiness for him self which should tend towards the happiness of all; the other, the animal man, seeking only his own happiness, and ready to sacrifice to it the happiness of the rest of the world.

Leo Tolstoy

#6. I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder.

Raquel Cepeda

#7. The Bible doesn't sugarcoat pain and suffering; it gives you something to move past it.

Jud Wilhite

#8. It is, then, your opinion that Christmas time is an unlikely season for crime ?

Agatha Christie

#9. I believe that it was the highest privilege of my life to wear the uniform of the United States Marine Corps. I don't believe the country owes me anything for doing so, but that my serving was partial payment on what I owe our country - a debt that can be never fully paid, but with my life.

Robert Hall

#10. One aspect of my life and career that has helped me be successful is having mentors - having women show me the way. We have to support other women.

Wendy Greuel

#11. Being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.

Raquel Cepeda

#12. I'm bicultural, and everyone sees me as a Latina, but in my head I see myself as both Latina and American.

Genesis Rodriguez

#13. Love has more force than a besieging army.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. Usually, I'll be auditioning for the third lead, and there will be Latina actresses, Indian actresses, African American actresses because it will be like, 'Let's check off this box. We have our lead white girl, and we need an ethnic slot.'

Constance Wu

#15. Many artists in Mexico fight to be the Latina Madonna. I don't want that! Never! Maybe she's the American Gloria Trevi!

Gloria Trevi

#16. The delusion that one's sexual pattern is The Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of this era, and it is virtually almost always the victim's fault. You cannot acquire this delusion by observing reality.

Spider Robinson

#17. I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not.

Sandra Cisneros

#18. The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American.

Lorna Luft