Quotes About Philippine History

#1. Throughout Philippine history, it's the immigrants who built fortunes and, in the process, helped build Philippine economy.

John Gokongwei

#2. All ships ... we are now at battle stations. I expect this will now be known as the Second Battle of Fondor.

Karen Traviss

#3. Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#4. I was always lucky that I've always had a gig, I'm fortunate in that way.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#5. The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.

William Jennings Bryan

#6. If we had spoken before, you would not have been ripe. If we were to talk later, you would have rotted." He bites into the pear, savoring the taste. "Perfect. The right moment.

Paulo Coelho

#7. I was to discover that like the overcoat that snugly wraps Rizal in all his statues and photographs, Rizal is obscured by countless myths and preconceived ideas ... Without his overcoat, Rizal was human, like you and me.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#8. You propose to give up everything to God; be sure, then, to include yourself among the things to be given up. - ST. BENEDICT.

Various

#9. The essence of all art is having pleasure giving pleasure.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#10. The world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places with no sacred association for us, is in truth a holy place, and we did not know it. Venite, adoremus.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#11. I have every reason to be happy.

Lara Dutta

#12. Sometimes it pays not to be interested in what happened but in what did not happen.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#13. Rizal is a compulsory course in school, but few teachers make Rizal's novels interesting. If students are taught to enjoy Rizal's works as literature instead of as a lodemine of 'patriotic' allusions I am sure they would not mind reading and rereading the 'Noli me Tangere'.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#14. As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#15. Life was easy was back in the days before human resource departments controlled business and someone decided we all should be politically correct.

Jerry Della Femina