Famous Quotes & Sayings

We wanted to make sure that these moms would not kill them. So we pulled them. We found hand-rearing these cubs would help. They have been socialized to people.

Avery Johnson

We didn't earn our paycheck. We need to give Mark Cuban a rebate, all of us.

John Gibbons

Well, I'll tell you, about a year ago in November the National Zoo had its first litter of cheetah cubs born. And when we had them debut, the very first day, we had over about 2,500 people file through just for them. And I don't mean to make it a popularity contest, but they were nowhere near as popular before their debut as this panda cub.

Bob DuPuy

We hope that the state department comes through. We would be disappointed if Cuba didn't play.

We don't sit on the U.S. ambassador's lap, nor do we sit on the Cuban ambassador's lap,

Alejo Carpentier

Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.

We are only trying to communicate with the Cuban people. Only a dictator would be upset.

Mike Royko

New York didn't need that 1969 pennant...all Cub fans wanted was that one measly pennant. It would have kept us happy until the twenty-first century. But New York took that from us and I can never forgive that.

I lost a good friend, ... He was a good Cubs fan like myself and we spent a lot of sad and some happy days there (Wrigley Field).

Jerry Reinsdorf

I felt all 88 of those years. I think I even felt the years that the Cubs haven't won on my shoulders.

Jerry Reinsdorf

I felt all 88 of those years, and felt all those years the Cubs haven't won.

Chris Neil

From what we've seen and heard here, the latest trend in migrant smuggling from Cuba is the go-fast boat. For those that go the route of migrant smuggling, they leave themselves at the mercy of smugglers who don't have an interest in their safety. They are interested in the cash.

Just like the Cubs fans say, there's always next year.

This wasn't a gift. We won this. The Cuban team simply had to come and show the quality of Cuban baseball.

What we are trying to do is communicate with the Cuban people.

If they're going to read something, let it be the truth, not growing up thinking that the kids in Cuba are living happy lives and that they're free and that they have all the rights that all the other kids in the world have, which they don't.

Scott Boras

I don't know why people are writing the Cubs aren't in it because they have to trade Sammy Sosa first.

Fidel Castro

I do not think that he is a warmonger, ... He is the only one who has dared say that Cuba has done something good.

Andy Garcia

I could talk about him all day. He's the Mozart of Cuban music,

Dave Roberts

I cut school in '84 to see the Cubs and Padres. This is my team. It's special. It's doubly special for me. I missed school to watch this team play. I had dreams of playing for the Padres.

Danny Pino

Growing up seeing Desi, I thought there were Cubans all over Hollywood. I understood that dialogue, everything he said. It wasn't weird to me because that's the way my dad talked.

Venezuela and Cuba don't have anything at risk in Bolivia.

Al Hirt

I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.

Louise Mensch

Whether it has been supporting Corby's new free school, or fighting for the truth on the Cube overspend and land development deals, or striving to protect the East Northamptonshire countryside, in my work as the local MP I have always been struck, as I said in my maiden speech, by the pride people have in our area.

Nestor Carbonell

I was born in New York, but I'm of Cuban heritage. Maybe there's a little island in my blood.

Fidel Castro

we remember forever for his deep caring, support and solidarity toward the Cuban people and our revolution.

Derrek Lee

We'll see tomorrow (Wednesday). The Cubs don't want me to play, but if I feel like I can play, I'm going to play. I'm not going to be stupid about it, but if I feel like I'm not hurting anything, I'm going to play.

We're hopeful that Cuba will be able to play.

Elliott Abrams

Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, Cuban troops were already roaming Angola, and a pro-Communist regime ruled Ethiopia.

Evo Morales

We are here to resolve social problems, economic problems. This movement is not only in Bolivia; Fidel in Cuba and Hugo in Venezuela are logging triumphs in social movements and leftist policies.

We have instructed all Cuban firms to start using the euro as of the first of June of this year in transactions with the 11 nations of the European Union as well as several others.

Brit Marling

Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.

Diana Nyad

I swam. We made it, our team, from the rocks of Cuba to the beach of Florida, in squeaky-clean, ethical fashion.