From known Kapampangan personalities--quotable quotes that not only
speak a lot about their character, but also serve to inspire, motivate, encourage,
and sometimes, amuse and entertain, without really trying!
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A famous, oft-quoted Kapampangan
boast uttered by an unknown Pampanga native, in reference to his unparalleled
courage and bravery.
Attributed to Ninoy’s widow who
restored democracy to the Philippines and who would be swept to power as the country’s first female
president, in one of her interviews.
In 2003, former Miss
International Melanie Marquez delivered one of her infamous lines, when she
defiantly defended her brother Joey Marquez against detractors who blamed and
bashed him for his part in his failed marriage with media darling Kris Aquino. Her
penchant for making these hilarious grammatical lapses have resulted in a book
appropriately entitled “Melanisms”.
Said by the Huk Supremo after
Pres. Elpidio Quirino asked him if he was now ready to swear loyalty to the
Philippine government, following his acceptance of an offer of amnesty.
These words are attributed to
the nameless “brave youth from Macabebe”. Miguel Lopez de Legazpi had sent feelers that
he wanted to meet with the Macabebes who arrived in Tondo, with Lakandula as
mediator. The young leader spurned him, as “ahe did not come to befriend the adelantado, but rather to fight him”.
This led to the warrior’s valiant death in the battle of Bangkusay, as
chronicled in Conquistas de las Islas de Filipinas 1565-1615.
Dubbed as Gloriagate, the Hello
Garci political scandal created an electoral crisis in the Philippines when, in
June 2005, telephone conversations between GMA and Comelec commissioner
Virgilio Garci were leaked to the public. Allegedly, Arroyo tried to sway the
election results in her favor. An attempt to impeach her in the lower house was
thwarted by GMA’s group, and she escaped trial. With a sad, contrite face, she
eventually apologized to the country on TV. “I want to close this chapter.”,
she ended.
Last words of the convicted
criminal before his death by electric chair on May 17, 1972. Jose, whose father
is Dr. and 3 others (Basilio Pineda,
Jr., Eduardo Aquino, Rogelio Cañal) were found guilty of the kidnapping and
rape of actess Maggie dela Riva on June 26, 1967. His mother’s plea for mercy in Malacañang was
not heeded. Jose was the son of a well-to-do doctor from Pampanga, Dr. Jose
Jose.
At the end of her popular 1980s
weekly musical-variety show V.I.P.(Vilma in Person), the bubbly star would
throw a flying a kiss and wave her hand as she shouts “I love you, Lucky!”. Lucky happens to be the nickname of her son
with Edu Manzano, Luis Philippe. “I love you,Lucky!” would become her trademark goodbye.
Words of wisdom from the “poor
boy from Lubao”, who would become the ninth President of the Philippines,
serving from 1961 to 1965..
Pampanga’s most well-known hero
addressed these words to his son after learning of his father’s impending
execution by the Japanese, in May 2, 1942..
Action star Mark Lapid,
unleashed these words to Dick Israel in the Northeast Films’ “Apoy sa Dibdib ng
Samar”. The cpmlete lines are: “ Oo, inaamin ko. Saging lang kami. Pero
maghanap ka ng puso sa buong Pilipinas---sagin lang ang may puso! Buti pa ang
saging, may puso!”
This powerful—and popular--
line has been quoted in countless speeches, inspirational talks and used in
book titles and political collectibles, but Ninoy Aquino did not exactly state
the line verbatim. It was actually a condensed version of a section in his 1980
speech in New York before the Asia Society where he said: “I have carefully weighed the virtues and the
faults of the Filipino and I have come to the conclusion that he is worth dying
for because he is the nation’s greatest untapped resource.”
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