Cinco De Mayo Quotes:

Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America.

- Joe Baca

topic: America, Mexican, Celebration, Mexican American, Cinco De Mayo

Cinco de Mayo is an important day. The Mexicans had to defend themselves from the French. It is historically significant, but it is not Mexican Independence Day.

- Kuno Becker

topic: Mexican, Independence, Important, Cinco De Mayo, Important Days

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

- Willa Cather

source: O Pioneers! pt. 1, ch. 5 (1913)

topic: Wisdom, Country, Heart, Cinco De Mayo

Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day.

- Joe Baca

topic: Years, Independence, Mexico, Cinco De Mayo

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

- Clarence Darrow

topic: Memorial Day, Peace, Hate, September 11th, Independence Day Patriotic

Happy Cinco de Mayo! It’s a holiday that’s as respectful of Mexican traditions as Epcot Center’s Mexican food pavilion.

- Conan O'Brien

topic: Holiday, Epcot, Mexican, Cinco De Mayo, Mexican Food

There is something magnificent in having a country to love.

- James Russell Lowell

topic: Country, 4th Of July, Magnificent, Cinco De Mayo

Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Country, Veterans Day, Brother, Military Soldier, Military Veteran

I don't drink anymore for Cinco de Mayo. I celebrate with Mexican food, or as it's known in Mexico: 'food.'

- Craig Ferguson

topic: Mexican, Mexico, Drink, Cinco De Mayo, Mexican Food

Happy Cinco de Mayo. In honor of Cinco de Mayo, mayor Bill de Blasio is filling all New York City potholes with guacamole.

- David Letterman

topic: New York, Cities, Honor, Cinco De Mayo, Potholes

For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying south-of-the-bo rder cuisine on Cinco de Mayo. It means talking to and spending time with kids not like them so that they may discover those kids are in fact just like them.

- John Ridley

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Children, Real, Kids, Cinco De Mayo

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

- Aristotle

topic: Freedom, Equality, Government, Social Equality, Liberty And Equality

After all these years, it's still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye.

- Chi Chi Rodriguez

topic: Golf, Years, Play, Humorous Golf, Golf Ball

Latinos have fought in all of America’s wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago.

- Joe Baca

topic: Country, War, Fighting, Cinco De Mayo, Revolutionary War

Of the people, by the people, for the people,

- Sun Yat-sen

topic: People, Independence And Freedom, Inspirational Freedom, Inspirational Patriotic, Inspiring Independence Day

Happy Cinco de Mayo. If you don't know what that means, maybe you're a little out of touch - or maybe you're the governor of Arizona.

- Craig Ferguson

topic: Mean, Littles, Arizona, Cinco De Mayo

Hillary Clinton made a campaign stop in Las Vegas yesterday. She said she wants citizenship for undocumented immigrants. But after seeing Americans celebrate Cinco de Mayo yesterday, immigrants said, 'You know what, we're good. We're gonna head back now. We had enough.'

- Jimmy Fallon

topic: Yesterday, Vegas, Campaigns, Cinco De Mayo, Undocumented Immigrants

I had to learn quick, because I was performing in Cinco de Mayo festivals with babies crying and people lifting their beers, and you know the feather dancers would come, and they'd say, "What are you, a poet? You're next".

- Sandra Cisneros

source: "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

topic: Baby, Beer, People, Cinco De Mayo

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Government, People, Earth, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Sarcastic, Freedom, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

I was fortunately able to avoid getting into any trouble with police. There was - I remember I was 12, and I did something really (laughter) - a couple of friends, Cinco de Mayo - we were off school, and we saw some people looking like they were having a party. And we had a little bit too much time on our hands, and so we figured, as kids, a great idea would be to throw some things over the fence and hit all these people with stuff, like eggs and everything.

- Mahershala Ali

topic: Laughter, Couple, Party, Cinco De Mayo