Cuba Quotes
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Cuba Quotes & Sayings
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Today Obama was seen leaving the White House in a nurse's uniform on a flight to Cuba to smother Castro with a pillow.
— Bill Maher
Hugo Chavez has tried to steal an inspiring phrase 'Patria o muerte, venceremos.' It does not belong to him. It belongs to a free Cuba.
— Mitt Romney
Cuba is just a slave-prison. Our only crime is brith, but our sentence is life behind barbed wire and prison bars.
— Jaxy Mono
I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
While guidebooks might tell you that time collapsed here, another theory says that in Latin America, all of history coexists at once.
— Brin-Jonathan Butler
I'm going to be honest with you - I don't know a lot about Cuba's healthcare system. Is it a government-run system?
— John F. Kerry
If Cuba wants normal relations, there's certain things they need to do like become a normal country that respects the rights of their citizens.
— Marco Rubio
The only way to Cuba is with the CIA.
— Phil Ochs
Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
— Fidel Castro
Cuba has its own moral system and priorities. That's what keeps it going, the belief that the country can control its own destiny.
— Assata Shakur
One cat just leads to another.
[Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).] — Ernest Hemingway,
[Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).] — Ernest Hemingway,
They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?
— Paul Harvey
I think the art world will continue to be a place where people have a certain freedom and creativity to think about what's happening in Cuba.
— Rachael Price
When I was back in Cuba, who could have imagined I would be invited to the White House!
— William Levy
I'll know America is in bad shape when Cubans in Miami get in the water and swim back to Cuba.
— Carlos Mencia
Are you really questioning the wisdom of central planning? Because the happy citizens of Cuba and North Korea beg to differ.
— Jonathan Gruber
I was born in Cuba but was made in the USA.
— Gustavo Perez Firmat
When I was 14, in Cuba, I met Fidel Castro with my dad, and it was really impressive. And on a totally different level, I met Justin Timberlake!
— Dylan Penn
May be my favorite of my Cuba dispatches ...
— Jeff Greenwald
No life form on this planet undergoes such a slow and graceful death as the tobacco leaf.
— Mark McGinty
Sometimes I just stand on the beach and look at the water, and Cuba feels so close it's unbelievable.
— Jose Contreras
I was born in Cuba, and my parents were tropical agronomists.
— Italo Calvino
In Cuba they don't celebrate Halloween but my favorite moments have been trick-or-treating with my kids here in the U.S.: they really enjoy it.
— Erislandy Lara
I swam. We made it, our team, from the rocks of Cuba to the beach of Florida, in squeaky-clean, ethical fashion.
— Diana Nyad
In Cuba we have one party, but in the U.S. there is very little difference. Both parties are an expression of the ruling class.
— Raul Castro
In Cuba and specifically in Havana there's a sort of energy that turns every situation into something unexpected.
— Fernando Perez
story telling is not a career, it's a calling. I've been writing true and compelling news my entire professional life. My novels are packs of lies
— Glen Carter
It didn't get any more glamorous than Havana, Cuba, in the 1950s. I used to go there when I was a waiter on a cruise ship.
— Sirio Maccioni
If I could choose one place to be right now - fuck Copenhagen and Cuba. I'd be at right beside you, wherever you are, smiling.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
They talk about who won and who lost. Human reason won. Mankind won.
— Nikita Khrushchev
I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it.
— Raul Castro
In consigning Elian back to slavery without a hearing, this administration is setting back the cause of freedom
in this country and in Cuba. — David Limbaugh
in this country and in Cuba. — David Limbaugh
What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is all waltzes.
— Antonio Carlos Jobim
I've been to Cuba many times.
— Euzhan Palcy
Cuba is such a beautiful country, and everywhere you go, there's music and people dancing - especially in Havana.
— Julia Sawalha
What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.
— Vaclav Havel
Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition.
— Alberto Juantorena
I'm truly blessed, because many of my friends come to Cuba. They like it here-they can relax and not worry about drive-by shootings or getting raped.
— Assata Shakur
We all create our own reality by the choices we make.
— Cuba Gooding Jr.
I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music is fantastic and important.
— David Bowie
Except for food and medical supplies, the United States imposed a total embargo on Cuba on October 19, 1960.
— Hank Bracker
As long as Fidel Castro is alive we [the American Government] will not normalize relations with Cuba. We don't want it, and he certainly doesn't.
— Mark Falcoff
The notion that Cuba is the only country in the world where you can live without working must be erased forever.
— Raul Castro
Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.
— Achy Obejas
I have never made a decision based on race and never will.
— Cuba Gooding Jr.
I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses.
— Cuba Gooding Jr.
The notion that somehow you're going to have freedom just kind of outbreak in Cuba, I think is false.
— Jeb Bush
Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
— Carlos Fuentes
Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.
— William McKinley
It's amazing how everything here seems like it's in abundance. In Cuba, there is a shortage of everything.
— Jose Contreras
Cuba will be free. I already am.
— Reinaldo Arenas
A missile is a missile. It makes no great difference whether you are killed by a missile fired from the Soviet Union or from Cuba.
— Elie Abel
I had always wanted to include images in a novel, and with my first book, 'Telex From Cuba,' I made an elaborate website that is basically all images.
— Rachel Kushner
I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
— Fidel Castro
A little crazy is good
— Chris Hilton
The most honest, ballsy, don't give a shit person I've ever met, and she thought I would love her forever
— Chris Hilton
I come from Cuba. Taxes for me are no big thing.
— Tony Oliva
I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.
— Ted Cruz
I'd like to go to Cuba.
— Elian Gonzalez
In Cuba there are no drugs nor will there be.
— Raul Castro
Cuba is a wonderful country. What Castro's done is superb.
— Helen Caldicott
In Cuba you get a quarter of a chicken per month. They give you one bread per person a day. So, it makes your life really tough.
— William Levy
If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing.
— Edward Burnett Tylor
A lot of contemporary American culture makes its way to this county. Cuba is not some gray, isolated backwater. This is a happening place.
— Assata Shakur
I worked so much when my first son was born that I missed a lot.
— Cuba Gooding Jr.
That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro.
— Oscar Isaac
I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at the time I never thought about leaving Cuba.
— Yoenis Cespedes
The Castro government is disproportionately white given the color of the island. It doesn't look like Cuba.
— Mark Falcoff
I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba.
— Amy Tan
In Cuba, I didn't even have a bicycle.
— Yoenis Cespedes
I respect the path Cuba chooses to take.
— Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva
Pope Francis also I think was really pivotal in sort of sanctioning and giving that important cosign to the opening of Cuba.
— Joy-Ann Reid
The people in Cuba, they know what I stand for, and there's a lot of people in Cuba that stand for the same. But they can't say it.
— Pitbull
I speak to my agent about great roles, and he's like, 'They are all going to Will Smith.'
— Cuba Gooding Jr.
North Americans don't understand ... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
— Fidel Castro
American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898.
— Noam Chomsky
President Obama announced that he's going to reopen diplomatic relations with Cuba. He wants to act before Seth Rogen makes a movie about Castro.
— Conan O'Brien
The White House announced plans to begin normalizing relations with Cuba - this as we're awkwardizing relations with Russia.
— Craig Ferguson
We left the way one leaves a cherished but impossible love: our hearts heavy with regret but beating with great hope.
— Mirta Ojito
Anarchy is like custard cooking over a flame; it has to be constantly stirred or it sticks and gets heavy, like government.
— Tom Robbins
We should never suffer Cuba to pass from the hands of Spain to any other European power.
— Henry Cabot Lodge
Florida was like a pathetic, flaccid cock unable to
work it up. Meanwhile, Cuba sat waiting like a big, wet
pussy, not even a hundred miles out. — Arthur Graham
work it up. Meanwhile, Cuba sat waiting like a big, wet
pussy, not even a hundred miles out. — Arthur Graham
My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.
— Rachel Kushner
I'm not a prude. On the set, they called me 'Butt Naked.'
— Cuba Gooding Jr.