Quotes About Filipinos

#1. Our opponent [Cory Aquino] does not put on any make up. She does not have her fingernails manicured. You know gays. They are for beauty. Filipinos who like beauty, love and God are for Marcos.

Imelda Marcos

#2. Now farming became industry, and the owners followed Rome, although they did not know it. They imported slaves, although they did not call them slaves: Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans, Filipinos. They live on rice and beans, the business men said. They don't need much.

John Steinbeck

#3. Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

Imelda Marcos

#4. I would rather have a country run like hell by Filipinos than a country run like heaven by the Americans, because however a bad Filipino government might be, we can always change it.

Manuel L. Quezon

#5. And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.

Dana Rohrabacher

#6. Maria Clara did not faint, simply because the Filipinos do not know how to faint.

Jose Rizal

#7. Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.

Ferdinand Marcos

#8. These Filipinos will be your worst enemies if you commit the imprudence of attacking the Spaniards without the necessary preparation.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#9. Since it is necessary to grant six million Filipinos their rights, so that they may be in fact Spaniards, let the government grant these rights freely and spontaneously, without damaging reservations, without irritating mistrust.

Jose Rizal

#10. When my father returned home on the twenty-first of August 1983, he had a speech prepared. Filipinos never got to hear it, because he was murdered right on the tarmac.

Benigno Aquino III

#11. I prefer a government run like hell by Filipinos to a government run like heaven by Americans.

Manuel L. Quezon

#12. I'm really proud to be Filipino. Filipinos are really supportive, and I want to thank all of them. I love them!

Charice Pempengco

#13. We must work with the Australians, the South Koreans, the Japanese and the Filipinos to contain China. And then we must ask for their support and their help with North Korea. Because believe it or not, China is as concerned about Kim Jong-Un as we are.

Carly Fiorina

#14. Hundreds of barefoot Filipinos marched on the roads through the Philippines carrying heavy wooden crosses and whipping their backs until they bled to prepare for Easter. Call me old-fashioned but I just like coloring the eggs.

Jay Leno

#15. By and large, our political system has betrayed its promise to each new generation of Filipinos, not a few of whom are voting with their feet, going abroad and leaving that system behind.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#16. Filipinos everywhere are known for their love of God, their fervent piety and their warm devotion to Our Lady and her rosary

Pope Francis

#17. We have blacks and whites, Jews and Arabs, Serbs and Croats, and Filipinos and Vietnamese here. At the end of the day, everyone is each other's brother.

Bobby Slayton

#18. We young Filipinos are trying to make over a nation and must not halt in our march, but from time to time turn our gaze upon our elders. We shall wish to read in their countenances approval of our actions.

Jose Rizal

#19. The ethnic differences among Filipinos are very real. The paucity of arable land, for instance, explains the industry of the Ilokanos and the Cebuanos.

F. Sionil Jose

#20. Pidgin, pidgin everywhere. A peculiarity of dropping the connective, the article, of translating literally, of using present for past, present for future. We Filipinos did not speak pidgin. Our English was straight from the grammar texts.

Gilda Cordero-Fernando

#21. It seemed to him that Filipinos didn't attach too much importance to what their first names could do to their fate, only to their surnames.

Clarissa V. Militante

#22. I don't see myself as any different from all the other Filipinos who have gone abroad looking for opportunity, to be a nurse, a labourer, a maid or a prostitute.

Miguel Syjuco

#23. I always tell Asian actors, especially Filipinos wanting to break into Hollywood, to study, study and study and show their best. I haven't stopped studying. There's an abundance of roles, and all you have to do is prove to them that you are good for the role.

Reggie Lee

#24. I can't do everything alone. I need all Filipinos to unify.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#25. Marijuana is the most violence causing drug in the history of mankindMost marijuana smokers are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers.

Harry J. Anslinger

#26. This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the arts are - not just to those of us who work at it, but to the nation as a whole.

F. Sionil Jose

#27. I dream of a morning when Filipinos can wake up from the centuries-long sleep that took them from their past and denied them their destiny as a people.

Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

#28. Filipinos don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of sacrifice.

Jose Rizal

#29. It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#30. I really want the pope to come into the pulpit and tell Filipinos to their faces what's wrong with them, because we refuse to listen to ourselves.

Carlos Celdran

#31. Singing seems to be inherent in Filipino, just as it is in my race. That's why I have this affinity with Filipinos.

Luke Evans

#32. I ask the educational system, the parents, the church, and pillars of the community to help shape a new culture of honesty, patriotism, respect, discipline and service for young Filipinos.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#33. Filipinos have an aversion to blank walls.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#34. There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.

Harry J. Anslinger

#35. I came from the Philippines and Filipinos are incredibly musical. I mean the best cover bands in the world come from Manila!

June Millington

#36. 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

#37. I'm not hoping to see that day but I know that my cinema will reach Filipinos. I know that they will embrace it one day. It will happen. I'm very sure of that. I still have faith in cinema. I still believe it can affect change.

Lav Diaz

#38. Because Filipinos are very creative and assiduous people, they will always find a way to make things happen.

Tim Liwanag

#39. As our country bled ... its leader's wife came to this podium piously to call for a new human order, this when thousands of Filipinos were political prisoners.

Corazon Aquino

#40. Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.

Imelda Marcos

#41. Filipinos are called to be outstanding missionaries of faith in Asia

Pope Francis

#42. In Tagalog, we call undocumented people 'TNT,' which means tago ng tago, which means 'hiding and hiding.' So that's literally what undocumented means in Tagalog. And that kind of tells you how Filipinos think of this issue, and really any culture, right?

Jose Antonio Vargas

#43. Oh, how this world needs Filipino trailblazers! Yes, we can be that.

Tim Liwanag

#44. Life is a continuous feeling wherein something you work for it to be happy in terms of your soul.

Fernando Lachica