Havana Quotes: top 39 famous quotes about Havana

Havana Quotes & Sayings

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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

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man — Mark Twain

If the birth of a genius resembles that of an idiot, the end of a Havana Corona resembles that of a 5-cent cigar. — Sacha Guitry

I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey. — Daisy Fuentes

Sound judgment is the ground of writing well. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

There was a lot of stuff happening in Havana that was being heard and appreciated by New Orleans musicians because of this situation. And vice versa. — Ruben Blades

In Cuba and specifically in Havana there's a sort of energy that turns every situation into something unexpected. — Fernando Perez

Then [after Castro dies and her triumphal return to Havana], at last, I could sing for my people. — Gloria Estefan

I was a hero, and a second afterwards it was all over. Casartelli was dead so what I had achieved was worth nothing. — Richard Virenque

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

A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know. — W. Somerset Maugham

Cuban eyes often look close to tears. Tears never seem far away because both their pain and their joy are always so close to the surface. — Brin-Jonathan Butler

Graham Greene's work must be included in any survey of top-rank spy novels, and 'Our Man in Havana' may be his best. — Alan Furst

I feel like Havana has always been such an amazing, cosmopolitan city that it makes sense that a lot of galleries will want to be present. — Rachael Price

I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter. — Maureen O'Hara

You think too much," she said.
"OK, no more thinking. — Caliente

To me a great sci-fi movie has elements of horror and suspense. — Moon Bloodgood

Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity. — Anonymous

Michael still thought of Havana as home, because he was born there. And he had been Miguel Arroya there.
Here, he was Michael. — Mike Lupica

I eat a catfish sandwich
with onions and red sauce
20c. (Havana 1953) — Allen Ginsberg

I love going to the factories of La Plata, or Little Havana and seeing them roll cigars. I get excited. To me it is more beautiful than a topless club — Al Goldstein

Cuba is such a beautiful country, and everywhere you go, there's music and people dancing - especially in Havana. — Julia Sawalha

The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar. — Evelyn Waugh

What you do daily determines what you become permanently — Mike Murdock

The Congressman ascertained that the consulate in Havana had numbers to feed the pigs. — Erich Leinsdorf

The idea that war can ever bring freedom is quite possibly the greatest deception that mankind has ever forced upon himself. — Michel Templet

It is extraordinary to think about. We still speak of Socratic or Platonic philosophy, but actually being Plato or Socrates is quite another matter. — Jostein Gaarder

There is no number or level of success that would make me think, 'Wow, I didn't think that was possible.' — Tucker Max

He checked his parachute and launched himself into the Sea of Sarcasm.
Havana Red — Leonardo Padura

You can't claim you're for peace if you're not willing to disturb it. — Bill Maher

Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf. — Norman Lear

To move on, you must surrender to your pain and accept it as your own. Only then will you heal inside. — L.J. Vanier

"Papa" referred to Frank five times as: " ... the blood son of Dr. Felix Hoenikker."
The phrase reeked of cannibalism. — Kurt Vonnegut

So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Books always speak of other books. — Umberto Eco

Havana is like Beirut, without having gone through the civil war to achieve the destruction. — Theodore Dalrymple

In the end, thought Sol, past logic and hope, it is dreams and the love of those dearest to us that form Abraham's answer to God. — Dan Simmons