Maritas Philippines Quotes

There is only one government in the Philippines and that is how it will stay, ~ Joseph Estrada

The Philippines is where Asia wears a smile. Beautiful products can only be made by happy people. ~ Imelda Marcos

I've learned 2 things about tv. It's always easier with vodka & SOME OF THE BEST SINGERS ARE FROM THE PHILIPPINES ~ Ellen DeGeneres

It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home. ~ Ambeth R. Ocampo

I grew up in the Philippines, and I don't think there is a problem with the typhoon. It's normal for us. ~ Manny Pacquiao

SM Seaside City Cebu: soon to be the Philippines' Largest Mall and the 4th Largest in the World ~ Henry Sy

I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos. A place where I'd felt instantly at home. ~ Alex Garland

Modeling is more fun in the Philippines ~ Sophie Sumner

The Philippines is in a strategic position. It is both East and West, right and left, rich and poor. We are neither here nor there. ~ Imelda Marcos

The Philippines has no policy that demands sacrifice of human lives. ~ Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

From my keen observation, it is a very sad fact that the Philippines' current administration's drug war crisis has fully pressed the pedal of acceleration to more division, hatred, cycles of violence (copycat killings, summary killings, extra judicial killings, collateral victims of drug war), toxic revenge, and perpetual impunity. ~ Angelica Hopes, reflections on Drug War in the Philippines ~ Angelica Hopes

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

A country of victims is also a country of heroes, risking their lives so others will live. This is the Philippines, the country we love. ~ Tony Meloto

I ask the Philippines Government to put an end to journalists' killings by giving journalists' safety the priority it deserves. ~ Warren Christopher

In 1995, we had evidence of the brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden being in the Philippines, living in the Philippines. We had evidence of front organizations set up in the Philippines. And we uncovered evidence about, which would help the U.S. with - about the perpetuators of the World Trade Center bombing. ~ Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

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

The Philippines bear witness to the youthfulness and vitality of the Church. ~ Pope Francis

Is it only in the army in the Philippines that Americans sometimes commit deeds that cause all other Americans to regret?
[Theodore Roosevelt 1901 relating reports of water torture in the Philippines to lynching in the south] ~ Theodore Roosevelt

I'm looking forward to visiting the Philippines. I heard that there are so many big malls there and so many beaches. ~ Lee Min-ho

The most adventurous thing I've done is learn how to fly a helicopter in the Philippines. One night we landed on a beach and slept on it. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

We want the happiness of the Philippines, but we want to obtain it through noble and just means. If I have to commit villainy to make her happy, I would refuse to do so, because I am sure that what is built on sand sooner or later would tumble down. ~ Jose Rizal

Discover how beautiful our country is and how wonderful our people are. Time to fall in love with the Philippines. ~ Tony Meloto

General Otis is proclaimed American Military Governor of the Philippines and I protest a thousand times and with all the force in my soul against such pretension. ~ Emilio Aguinaldo

[On The Philippines:] ... eighty dialects and languages are spoken; we are a fragmented nation of loyal believers, divided by blood feuds and controlled by the Church. ~ Jessica Hagedorn

Mine was a good race. Ours was a good country. I loved every foot of it that I knew...I had been reared in a wonderful country among wonderful people and I wanted all the rest of the world to know and respect the Philippines. ~ Carlos P. Romulo

We seriously suspect the agents of the Americans and Israelis in conducting such horrendous terrorist acts and cannot believe the people who kidnap Philippines nationals, for instance, or behead U.S. nationals are Muslims. ~ Ali Khamenei

Before September 11, we were fighting terrorism in our southwestern Philippines, and it was a lonely fight. However, we were able to contain it now in one island in that part of the Philippines. But after September 11, and after the creation of the global coalition against terrorism, now we have allies, and I believe now it will easier with allies. ~ Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

I can easily go to America, or I can easily escape to some places in Europe with friends. But the place for me is the Philippines. The struggle is there. I cannot turn my back on it. It's a responsibility. ~ Lav Diaz

The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self- government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race. ~ Albert J. Beveridge

Peace in the Middle East is of prime importance to the Philippines, due to the presence of around 2 million of our countrymen working in that region. ~ Benigno Aquino III

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

The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this. ~ Imelda Marcos

Roosevelt reasoned, "if the Vice-Presidency led to the Governor Generalship of the Philippines, then the question would be entirely altered." That post was the one he desired above all others, even a second gubernatorial term. From the moment the United States acquired the islands as a provision of the treaty in 1899 ending the Spanish-American War, Roosevelt had coveted the job of creating a new government in a Philippines free of Spanish tyranny. ~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer. ~ Bruno Mars

I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running. ~ R. Lee Ermey

The Philippines is a terrible name, coming from Spain. Phillip II was the father of the inquisition, who I believe died of syphilis. It is my great regret that we didn't change the name of our country. ~ Imelda Marcos

The Philippines was with the U.S. in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, and now in the war against terrorism. ~ Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

When the kids see the poverty in their neighborhood, but they see these successful kids who come from the countries they come from, come from Mexico, come from Korea, come from the Philippines, come from Salvador, and were doing really well, it motivates them to do better. The former students give them a vision of what's possible. ~ Rafe Esquith

I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude. ~ Imelda Marcos

I used to work for the World Health Organisation in poor countries all over the world - Bangladesh, Korea, the Philippines and India. You learn a whole range of things about how other people are living and try to connect with them to gain an understanding of where they're coming from. ~ Robert Winston

Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like. ~ Tony Hillerman

For freedom would not be easy. It never is. It would be more difficult for the Philippines than for many countries, because we had to face the fact that the islands, although potentially rich, had not tapped their resources. We were a poor country and a small one, and we could not afford to be hurled unprepared into competition with countries larger and richer and more powerful and far better trained. The Tydings-McDuffie Act means we could prepare. ~ Carlos P. Romulo

Indeed, the Philippines has been described as a "gambling republic" where politicians "hold power without virtue," dominating by means of "capital" and "crime."13 ~ Anonymous

The Philippines just need 100 youth to stand up for their country ~ F. Sionil Jose

During my visit to the Philippines, I wanted in a particular way to meet with young people, to listen to you and to talk to you. I want to express the love and the hopes of the Church for you. And I want to encourage you as Christian citizens of this country to offer yourselves passionately and honestly to the great work of renewing your society and helping to build a better world. ~ Pope Francis

A strengthened national spirit can provide the motive power to rise our people from the depths and ... pour new life and vigor in the national system.
The reinvigoration of the national spirit must take place in the grass roots, in every city, town and barrio in the Philippines, and it must start among our own people ... To be a worthy citizen of the world one must first prove himself to be a good Filipino. ~ Carlos P. Romulo

We've hired a lovely nanny, Adelyn, from the Philippines, who shows up in the morning and looks after Bean all day. ~ Pamela Druckerman

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

One need not bellow to be believed. Ears seal automatically against anger, and unreason takes over when an argument becomes a tirade. ~ Carlos P. Romulo

The leaders of Nippon were stupid. They took all of the gold out of Tokyo and buried it in holes in the ground in the Philippines! Because they thought that The General would march into Tokyo and steal it. But The General didn't care about the gold. He understood that the real gold is here - " he points to his head " - in the intelligence of the people, and here - " he holds out his hands " - in the work that they do. Getting rid of our gold was the best thing that ever happened to Nippon. It made us rich. Receiving that gold was the worst thing that happened to the Philippines. It made them poor. ~ Neal Stephenson

In the Philippines, formalizing home ownership was until recently a 168-step process involving fifty-three public and private agencies and taking between thirteen and twenty-five years. ~ Niall Ferguson

Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

The Philippines, it might be said, is a country in search of an identity. ~ Raymond Bonner

I hated to have us take the Philippines, but I don't see how in the world we can give them up. ~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

I feel like I have adopted the Philippines as my second country. ~ Dan Hill

I believe this Emperador Distillers investment in Whyte & Mackay is good for the Philippines as a whole, not only beneficial to our business. ~ Andrew Tan

Whatever America needs, the world will supply. Cocaine? Colombia steps to the plate. Shortage of farmworkers, corn detasselers? Thank God for Mexico. Baseball players? Viva Dominica. Need more interns? India, Philippines zindabad!" I ~ Abraham Verghese

We soon fall asleep in each other's arms, knowing to myself that I captured her, like a prisoner in a cage. ~ Fernando Lachica

Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country? ~ Ambeth R. Ocampo

My writing has been shaped by the three countries - Sri Lanka, the Philippines and England - I have lived in. ~ Romesh Gunesekera

Sometimes it pays not to be interested in what happened but in what did not happen. ~ Ambeth R. Ocampo

Every summer my father gave us this incredible vacation, in the Philippines, Thailand, Europe - wherever. ~ Marie-Chantal Claire

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

The current coastline of Labrador, or Norway, or for that matter southern Chile. Elsewhere on the map, western Antarctica was an archipelago somewhat resembling the Philippines. ~ Kim Stanley Robinson

They were both Filipino and laughed no matter what you said. Were the Philippines really such a happy place or were the carers just happy not to be there? ~ Kate Atkinson

I lived in grass huts in a jungle in the Philippines for three weeks with tribal people. ~ Evangeline Lilly

We feel that we fit into this fandom even if we're an outcast or misfits in this world." -Mary, 16, Philippines ~ Jazmin Williams

Roses are Reds, Violets are Blue, a simple sweet bouquet of flowers can brighten up anyone's day. ~ Regalo Manila

I usually go out riding late at night when there's no traffic because L.A. has become almost like the Philippines now as far as traffic. ~ Richard Grieco

Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. ~ Jessica Hagedorn

B.C. sat back in his chair. Whatever America needs, the world will supply. Cocaine? Colombia steps to the plate. Shortage of farmworkers, corn detasselers? Thank God for Mexico. Baseball players? Viva Dominicana. Need more interns? India, Philippines zindabad ~ Abraham Verghese

Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics. ~ Manny Pacquiao

From this time on, my life would be written in headlines, but I am not concerned with them. It was the marginal notations of the heart that were most important to the man within. ~ Carlos P. Romulo

I was doing TV work, theatre work, and some film work in the Philippines when I left. ~ Lea Salonga

Don Alejandro cut in with advice I have never forgotten. "It is only when a man knows reason is not on his side that he uses his fists. ~ Carlos P. Romulo

The sword must yield to the toga, Cicero had told the Roman Senate, and the friars in the Philippines thought a cassock was as good as a toga. But ~ Jose Rizal

This proved to me that no matter how diametrically opposed your views may be from another's if you can succeed in knowing him as a human being you can understand each other. ~ Carlos P. Romulo

Agreements in the organizations of world power are never reached on the floor. They are made in the delegates' lounge and corridors long before the voting begins. ~ Carlos P. Romulo

The pygmies, for example, or the Mindoro of the Philippines, do not want equal rights – they just want to be left alone. ~ Paul Karl Feyerabend

In the Philippines, Gloria Arroyo is the daughter of Diosdado Macapagal - but his term ended in 1965, and she was elected in 2001. Hardly a hand-off. ~ Elliott Abrams

You may not speak Tagalog or know as much as you would like about the Philippines, but if we'd stayed, you wouldn't have had all the opportunities that you've had here. ~ Randy Ribay

There's pearl of the orient seas but it happens to be also a pearl of orient corruptions. ~ Angelica Hopes

[Theodore] Roosevelt referred to [Emilio] Aguinaldo as a "renegade Pawnee" and observed that Filipinos did not have the right to govern their country just because they happened to occupy it. ~ Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

My first inkling of what the Commonwealth might really mean came only when I escaped the oddly British-tinged Asia I had known and went to live in the Philippines. ~ Romesh Gunesekera

My dad had the greatest admiration for MacArthur when they were working together in Washington before the Philippines. And Dad used to talk with absolute awe about MacArthur's brain. ~ John Eisenhower

Love is not selfish but, love is also not self-destructive. ~ Vice Ganda

After an orange cloud - formed as a result of a dust storm over the Sahara and caught up by air currents - reached the Philippines and settled there with rain, I understood that we are all sailing in the same boat. ~ Vladimir Kovalyov

And don't worry, if I get thrown in jail in Manila, Beyonce will just bail me out. Sold out night 2 in the Philippines. I love it here! ~ Lady Gaga

In the Philippines around 1916, an offensive style of passing the ball in a high trajectory to be struck by another player-the set and spike-was introduced. These players also developed the bomba, or kill, and called the hitter the bomberino. ~ Bonnie Kenny

The Constitution says that troops can be in the Philippines if there's a treaty that provides for it, and we have two treaties with the United States. ~ Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world. ~ Douglas MacArthur

The Philippines is strategically located and blessed with the greatest resource: its people, who are hard-working, very loyal, and very adaptive. ~ Benigno Aquino III

'Honor in the Dust' is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States. ~ Candice Millard

Manny has swung with many men, but many men never seen Manny's blissful swing. ~ Anthony Liccione

I knew nothing at all of the art of diplomacy, which I have since diagnosed as the ability to make the nastiest possible comment in the nicest possible way. ~ Carlos P. Romulo

I swear to God I was freaked out about the Aswang when I was a kid in the Philippines. ~ Reggie Lee

The United States is a key ally, a strategic partner, and a reliable friend of the Philippines. ~ Benigno Aquino III

Filipino pride. I'm so excited, I'm just sending love to the Philippines. I know they've had a tough year and I just send out my feelings to them. ~ Robert Lopez

Philippine President Joseph Estrada said he was saddened by the conviction. It's very unfortunate and what happened is saddening, ... If he really is innocent, then the day will come that his name will be cleared. ~ Joseph Estrada

I want to express my closeness to the people of the Philippines who have been struck by a strong earthquake, and I invite you to pray for that dear nation, which in recent days has suffered different calamities. ~ Pope Francis