South and Central America
- 293 Brasilia (Brazil)
- 469 Argentina (Argentina)
- 1008 La Paz (La Paz)
- 1029 La Plata (La Plata)
- 1042 Amazone (Amazon River)
- 4337 Arecibo (Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico)
- 8277 Machu-Picchu (Machu Picchu, Peru)
- 8279 Cuzco (Cuzco, Peru)
- 9357 Venezuela (Venezuela)
- 10797 Guatemala (Guatemala)
- 10799 Yucatán (Yucatán, Mexico)
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Famous quotes containing the words south, central and/or america:
“...I always said if I lived to get grown and had a chance, I was going to try to get something for my mother and I was going to do something for the black man of the South if it would cost my life; I was determined to see that things were changed.”
—Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977)
“Et in Arcadia ego.
[I too am in Arcadia.]”
—Anonymous, Anonymous.
Tomb inscription, appearing in classical paintings by Guercino and Poussin, among others. The words probably mean that even the most ideal earthly lives are mortal. Arcadia, a mountainous region in the central Peloponnese, Greece, was the rustic abode of Pan, depicted in literature and art as a land of innocence and ease, and was the title of Sir Philip Sidney’s pastoral romance (1590)
“Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises ... the best excellence in the children of any other land.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)