Mexico City Quotes

Mexico City Quote of the day

Los Angeles is not Mexico City, but we have many fine nightclubs and restaurants here. It is enough. One must not aim too high.

The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.

The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.

Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.

I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City.

I feel absolutely no threat or fear in Mexico City.

Suicide by carbon monoxide used to be done in the garage. Now, all you have to do is go to Mexico City and inhale.

I saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films.

I've always thought Mexico City was incredibly dynamic.

I was born in Mexico, I am from Mexico City.

I have this great fear of Mexico City. I won't go to Mexico City unless someone meets me at the airport and is with me. I just feel very vulnerable there.

There was a change in tone in terms of the [Donald] Trump who showed up in Mexico City for this press conference.

I remember being caught in this earthquake in Mexico City and having a sense of people coming before me, of being part of this lineage. I felt similarly when I went to India and South America.

Thousands of Mexicans gathered in Mexico City to protest high food prices. The protest only lasted an hour, because everyone had to leave for their jobs in Los Angeles

I've always been a very lucky guy. A lot of crazy things have happened in my career, but I guess the first big break was when I moved to Mexico City from Chihuahua.

…my books are derived from city images, and the city of my dreams or nightmares is Mexico City. (The Art of Fiction, No. 68. The Paris Review, No. 82, Winter 1981.)