Acapulco Quotes:

I've only been on one vacation ever. I just went to Acapulco before training camp.

- Terrell Owens

topic: Vacation, Training, Acapulco, Training Camp

I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks.

- Gavin MacLeod

topic: Couple, Thinking, Media, Acapulco

Acapulco in the sunset seems like a balm; it enters the blood like a drug after one inhalation of the scent of flowers, one glimpse of the bay iridescent like silk, the sunset like the inside of a shell, so much like the flesh of Venus.

- Anais Nin

topic: Flower, Sunset, Blood, Iridescent, Silk

I felt completely at home in Mexico - speaking Spanish to my cousins, running around Acapulco and stuffing my face with mole and homemade tortillas. Mexico opened my heart.

- Aimee Garcia

source: "What does it mean to you to be Latino in America?" by Aimee Garcia, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 18, 2011.

topic: Running, Cousin, Home, Speaking Spanish, Tortillas

right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music, and some acapulco shirts.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Car, Special, Firsts, Recorders, Acapulco

My wife says, and I agree with her, that what would be really great for Maine would be to legalize dope completely and set up dope stores the way that there are state-run liquor stores. You could get your Acapulco gold or your whatever it happened to be - your Augusta gold or your Bangor gold. And people would come from all the other states to buy it, and there could be a state tax on it. Then everybody in Maine could have a Cadillac.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies

topic: Running, Dope, People, Liquor Stores, Acapulco

No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands.

- Henry Louis Gates

topic: Thinking, Land, Cities, Peru, Acapulco