Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

There are a lot of splits in households over the heritage and the loss of it. Cubans here are different. Some leave out parts of their heritage.

It is a great privilege for all of us to see you here together, ... We feel like we are living a special moment, and that, in Latin America, Cuba is not alone.

I thought he could be what he was in Cuba again, ... He's been even better than I imagined.

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.

Lily Tomlin

If the formula for water is H2O, is the formula for an ice cube H2O squared?

He was a symbol of Cuban fishing and of human brotherhood, thanks to all of his years of friendship with Hemingway,

Jonah Hill

I grew up in the '80s in L.A., so Ice Cube and Magic Johnson are my heroes.

Ted Cruz

I grew up eating Cuban food all the time.

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.

unequivocal signal of support for the Cuban people.

Michael Barrett

Fans have grown weary of the complacency that surrounded the Cubs for years.

Michael Barrett

Fans have grown weary of the complacency that surrounded the Cubs for all these years. Cubs fans love this team. ... Now with the White Sox having won the World Series, their quest for this team to win the championship is on the tip of their brain.

Barack Obama

Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That's why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people.

To the Cubans, and by Cubans I mean the man on the street, this is like the Elgin marbles.

Nestor Carbonell

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

Bill Cosby

A Hoyo de Monterrey double corona is my favourite Cuban since Desi Arnaz.

Some of the players are gone, but ... not all of them were stars. If we go back before the revolution, you will see that a lot of the Cuban players were playing in the major leagues. ... We have a large number of players.

My mother lived in Cuba and much of her jewelry was custom made for her. I had no idea that it was worth so much! I didn't know this (appraisal) was going to be so much fun!

Mark Cuban made mention of all the Wild Turkey he thought would be flowing at Southwest Airlines, and we would hate to disappoint him.

Mark Cuban has a nicer plane. Michael has been a lot more help to us.

Carlos Zambrano

I will pitch the same way I pitch for the Cubs with less intensity.

Andrea Navedo

I went to Mexico for three months after college and studied Spanish there. And I went to Cuba and studied at the University of Havana. I loved studying in other countries.

Picasso's lifetime ... reflects a wide diversity of style development and also technical innovation, ... He invented things that we take for granted today (like) the invention of collage, assemblage, cubism -- as a style, his surrealist period which is so rich.

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.

Davey Johnson

We've been dying to get to Cuba the whole tournament ... They have a very strong team -- this is their Olympic gold team.

Avery Johnson

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

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.

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.

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.