Best Peruvians Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail.”

Turns Mines Shining Vices Folly Satire Pale Purple Peruvians

Book:The Poems of Charles Churchill ...

Source: The Poems of Charles Churchill ...

“Your peaks are beautiful, ye Apennines! In the soft light of these serenest skies; From the broad highland region, black with pines, Fair as the hills of Paradise they rise, Bathed in the tint Peruvian slaves behold In rosy flushes on the virgin gold.”

Light Beautiful Black Sky Fairs Gold Slave Hills Paradise Regions Broads Virgins Rosy Peruvians

Author:William C. Bryant

“My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.”

Father Italian Swiss Peruvians Alaskans

Author:Q'orianka Kilcher

“As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasnt made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.”

World Wells Made Different Wanted Boys Cups World Cup Peru Maradona Peruvians

Author:Daniel Alarcon

“I've never left my culture. I've left my country, but I've not left my culture. In the same way, you shouldn't be worried why George Lucas is going to the outer galaxy to make a movie. He's still making a film within his culture; he's making an American film. I go to Thailand or the Peruvian jungle, the Amazon, and I still make Bavarian films.”

Way Stills Country Film Culture Left Worried Galaxy Jungle Amazon Thailand American Film Peruvians

Author:Werner Herzog

“Gentlemen, I have spent the night thinking about this Peruvian (peace) initiative and I have to tell you that if it is your decision to accept then you will have to find another Prime Minister.”

Ifs Thinking Night Decision Accepting Ministers Gentleman Prime Initiative Prime Minister Night Thinking Peruvians

Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“I have a strong army I keep with me and we don't go out there looking for problems. A lot of people have this perception... but I don't have a superiority complex about me because I'm from New York or because I'm Peruvian/Black. I think some people get caught up in that stuff.”

People Thinking Problem Strong Stuff Black New York Perception Army Complexes Caught Superiority Caught Up Superiority Complex Peruvians

Author:Immortal Technique

“A lot of things occurred to me with shamans in Peru.There were a number of different kinds of experiences that you learn from doing ritual and taking ayahuasca [a common tropical forest hallucinogen] is the key to understanding the native consciousness and perception of the world with the Peruvian shamans that you wouldn't get unless you had been with them, but every shamanic tradition, including the Native American tradition of medicine and cleansing ritual, like the Sun Dance or the sweat lodge.”

“I was a sound engineer, and all of these gurus and shamans would come, and I would record the workshops they were teaching. And I took part in a shamanic journeying workshop, and this woman leading the workshop had brought Ayahuasca, which is a Peruvian hallucinogen and contains DMT.”

Sound Records Teaching Engineers Guru Workshops Dmt Ayahuasca Hallucinogens Peruvians

Author:Larkin Grimm

“I walk with Federico Garcia Lorca around the Upper West Side in Manhattan because that was a neighborhood he lived in and I imagine walking around Paris with Cesar Vallejo, a great Peruvian poet who lived in Paris. And I kind of create the walk as a kind of drama of my apprenticeship.”

Kind Sides Walks Imagine Poet Walking Drama West Paris Neighborhood Manhattan Apprenticeship West Side Lorca Peruvians

Author:Edward Hirsch

“I think Benjamin Bratt is the most dreamy... he's dreamy! And I love the fact that he's got this Peruvian heritage; he's absolutely striking.”

Thinking Facts Heritage Dreamy Peruvians

Author:Sandra Bullock

“I have gone into town to buy a few last things we need for the expedition: Peruvian wasp repellent, toothbrushes, canned peaches, and a fireproof canoe. It will take a while to find the peaches, so don't expect me back until dinnertime. Stephano, Gustav's replacement, will arrive today by taxi. Please make him feel welcome. As you know, it is only two days until the expedition, so please work very hard today. Your giddy uncle, Monty”

Knows Needs Feels Two Hard Today Lasts Gone Please Towns Welcome Uncles Taxi Two Days Peaches Replacements Expeditions Giddy Monty Wasps Toothbrushes Peruvians

Author:Daniel Handler

“The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats.”

Boat Sarcastic Peruvians Incas

Author:Carlos Fuentes

“Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary.”

Knows Dream Lying Impossible Strange Circumstances Happenings Illusion Refuge Peruvians

Book:The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta

Source: The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta

“My once-keen analytical mind has become so dulled by endless hours of baking in the hot sun, thrashing about in tight chimneys, pulling at impossibly heavy loads, freezing my ass off.... so that now my mental state is comparable to that of a Peruvian Indian, well stoked on coca leaves.”

Mind Wells States Hours Sun Hot Heavy Endless Ass Indian Climbing Load Pulling Baking Freezing Chimneys Heavy Loads Hot Sun Peruvians

Author:Warren G. Harding

“Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.”

Simple Traditional Spices Peruvians

Author:L'Wren Scott

“The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads to excessive punctuality or the failed experiment they call the nuclear family. This is the music of elements, untarnished, unrehearsed.”

Revolution Elements Music Is Nuclear Experiments Industrial Revolution Flutes Punctuality Nuclear Families Peruvians

Book:Small Craft Warnings: Stories

Source: Small Craft Warnings: Stories

“There is an insuperable problem about introducing immigrants to British values. There are no British values. Nor are there any Serbian or Peruvian values. No nation has a monopoly on fairness and decency, justice and humanity.”

Problem Values Humanity Nations Justice British Immigrants Introducing Fairness Monopoly Decency Peruvians

Author:Terry Eagleton