Quotes About Panama

#1. At a certain point, people in Panama thought that everything was going to be solved as soon as Noriega was gone. Of course, the disappointment was huge.

Ruben Blades

#2. Tango was very popular in Panama at the time when I was growing up. In the Fifties in Panama, the radio stations played all types of music.

Ruben Blades

#3. And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people.

Alberto Fujimori

#4. So Henry found himself stepping off the bus three stops early and wandering over to the Panama Hotel, a place between worlds when he was a child, a place between times now that he was a grown man.

Jamie Ford

#5. When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it was more than a simple photo op. Though the scene was clearly staged, it symbolized a crucial moment in American history.

Alan Huffman

#6. The Panama Canal,' says Abdiel Perez, 'is like a wound that humans inflicted on the Earth
one that nature is trying to heal.

Alan Weisman

#7. And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked it up when I came here and I recorded in 1969 my first album with Pete Rodriguez.

Ruben Blades

#8. 'Indigenous' is a bit of a gory thriller film that's centered around five best friends who take a vacation to Panama. They are enticed into the forbidden jungle by a local Panamanian and are being hunted by an indigenous creature - the legendary Chupacabra.

Lindsey McKeon

#9. I love to fish offshore for billfish, and have fished all over for them from the Bahamas, St. Thomas, Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico to the Texas gulf. I haven't made it to Australia yet, but someday I'm going.

George Strait

#10. Who's Britannica to tell me that the Panama Canal was built in 1914? If I want to say that it was built in 1941, that's my right as an American.

Stephen Colbert

#11. Everyone is so concerned now where all of the candidates are born. McCain was born on a military base in Panama. Hillary was born outside Chicago, and if you believe the media, Barack Obama was born in a manger.

Jay Leno

#12. I miss everything that makes up Panama. I don't have a preference. I love my country.

Mariano Rivera

#13. There is no denying that Francis Drake was a pirate and that the enterprise he conducted four years later in Panama was highway robbery, or at best, highjacking. But it was on the scale that transforms crime into politics.

Edmund S. Morgan

#14. Panama still more extraordinary machines would work an even more astonishing success. The wonderful thing was that the American dredges did

David McCullough

#15. So that when I came from Panama ... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami.

Ruben Blades

#16. I met Jason on a charity walk in 2001, and we got married on a friend's boat in Panama two years later. It was the perfect wedding for two people who'd already been married and who weren't teenagers.

Mariella Frostrup

#17. I'm aware that not all kids can pick up and fly to Panama. I'm very lucky.

Jenna Bush

#18. I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the United States the year after I was born. They moved into an all-white neighborhood, where the previous black family had a cross burned on their lawn.

J. August Richards

#19. I considered the wonder of the things that befell me, convinced that my life was the best omelet you could make with a chainsaw.
Panama

Thomas McGuane

#20. I suspect that the age of letters is waning, for our time. It is the age of Panama Canals, of Sandra Bernhardt, of Western wheat raising, of merely material expansion. Art, form, may return, but I doubt I shall live to see them
I don't believe they are as eternal as the poets say.

Henry James

#21. Fame doesn't make me any different. I am the same man now who grew up in the hard streets of Panama. I am just myself. I always will be. Whoever wants to talks to me, talks to me. Whoever loves me, loves me for who I am.

Roberto Duran

#22. I think being born in Panama was a blessing because Panama is a port city. It's a really - the mentality is that - I remember that of admitting things in. You know, ports, ideas come in and out all the time.

Ruben Blades

#23. I don't think acting should be all-encompassing. So, when I'm not shooting, I'll go down to Mexico on a spear-fishing trip for a couple of weeks, or I'll go to the Coral Sea, or I'll go to Panama, or wherever.

Tanc Sade

#24. Matheus pressed his fingertips to his forehead, rubbing in overlapping circles. He closed his eyes and exhaled. He wanted to grab Quin and run. Jump in the Jeep and drive until they reached the Panama Canal.

Amy Fecteau

#25. I'll pay them right after it snows in Panama. Let Eleta pay them if he feels so strongly about it.

Don King

#26. Nothing so challenges the American spirit as tackling the biggest job on earth ... Americans are stimulated by the big job; the Panama Canal, Boulder Dam, Grand Coulee, Lower Colorado River developments, the tallest building in the world, the mightiest battleship.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#27. In 1916, President Wilson drafted the speech in which he declared, "It shall not lie with the American people to dictate to another what their government shall be." His Secretary of State Robert Lansing wrote in the margin: "Haiti, S Domingo, Nicaragua, Panama."6 That

Os Guinness

#28. Witnessing Panama's overnight transition from banana republic to middle-class retirement haven is like watching the Univision version of Extreme Makeover: it feels so tacky but you can't change channels because you just have to find out what happens next.

Andrew Evans

#29. My dad is from Panama; he came to the U.S. in 1971. He came to study chemical engineering at the University of Delaware. He thought he would go back, and then he met my mom here. I was born and mostly raised in Delaware.

Cristina Henriquez

#30. In the morning, when she walked to the consulate, carefully watching her sandals on the pavement, she glanced up and saw a Negro wearing a stack of panama hats. Maybe twelve. She never forgot the bandoeon of brims, the perfect stutter of hat.

Craig Raine

#31. The Panama Canal was dug with a microscope.

Ronald Ross

#32. Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.

J. August Richards

#33. We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square.

S.I. Hayakawa

#34. I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe.

Ruben Blades

#35. When I was younger, my father was in the Foreign Service and we lived in Nigeria, Panama, and London, but for the most part I grew up in the South and D.C. I got the travel bug as a little person and I've bounced around a lot.

Nicole Beharie

#36. But no statistic conveyed a true picture of Panama rain. It had to be seen, to be felt, smelled; it had to be heard to be appreciated. The effect was much as though the heavens had opened and the air had turned instantly liquid.

David McCullough

#37. The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.

Jessica Savitch

#38. He was wearing a gleaming cream-coloured linen suit, and a Panama hat. The weirdest thing about this was that he was not the most outlandish-looking person in the room by a long way. Not that Little Miss Dresses-Like-Bogart over here has a right to complain

Alexis Hall

#39. What that judge did is immoral. Here in Panama when we bribe somebody we expect loyalty.

John Le Carre

#40. So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama.

Ruben Blades

#41. I remember standing in the crow's nest as we entered the misty Panama Canal, and the strange sensation as the 4,000-ton ship rose higher and higher inside the lock.

Christopher Buckley

#42. My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.

William Howard Taft

#43. In the 1980s, the U.S. Army invaded two Caribbean countries, Grenada and Panama, to depose leaders who had defied Washington.

Stephen Kinzer

#44. We shouldn't blame the Panama programme for the World Cup bid failing

Graham Taylor

#45. In 1989 an American invasion, Operation Just Cause, had ousted the government of President Manuel Noriega. 'They got rid of Ali Baba but they forgot the forty thieves,' ran a popular joke in Panama.

Adam Sisman

#46. In Panama, I found a spider that eats its own limbs during lean times. I am told they grow back. But though the distinction is razor-thin, desperation is not the same thing as determination. Nevertheless, auto-cannibalism is one the most intriguing phenomenon I have ever heard of.

Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

#47. The US has attacked countries like Grenada, Panama, Libya ... the list of victims of US terrorism is almost infinite. And the US government's participation in torture, whether in El Salvador, Guatemala, Chile ... is well-documented and widely known.

Assata Shakur

#48. Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER!

Omar Torrijos Herrera

#49. I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S.

Barry Sternlicht

#50. To fix Panama, you need more than charisma and records: you need a program of action.

Ruben Blades

#51. Lanai at one time grew 98% of the world's pineapples. But the world's pineapples are now grown in two places, Costa Rica and Panama, because no one wants to spend $45 for a pineapple from the United States.

Larry Ellison

#52. The distinctive crimes of this generation are crimes of subtlety and finesse.
- ALEXANDER S. BACON 1908

J.M. Carlisle

#53. Dude im starting to think that life is very unfair

Vishal Daryanani