Celia Cruz Quotes

We have been exceedingly busy ever since you went away. In the first place we have had to rejoice two or three times everyday at your having such very delightful weather for the whole of your journey...

Don't you know that a good and excellent person does nothing for the sake of appearances, but only for the sake of having acted right?

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself.

Li Yi-an was the greatest poetess of China. Once her husband asked one of his friends to pick out the best lines that he liked from a number of his poems, having, however, concealed in them some pieces by his wife. The friend picked out, to his dismay, only lines from her pen.

The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.

To one who asked what was the proper time for lunch, he said, "If a rich man, when you will; if a poor man, when you can.

Just because we cannot afford human insulin, we are having to use animal insulin, so let me do something about it

Shame is not in the beatings, not in the rape. Shame is in being asked to stand judgment.

Nobody can guarantee a company or a concept of eternal life, but no one can accuse me of not having tried to.

Far from having become 1900 years ago a stagnant or dried-up religion, as Christian theology declares, Judaism has ever remained "a river of God full of living waters," which, while running within the river-bed of a single nation, has continued to feed anew the great streams of human civilization.

I’m a Freddie Mercury fan. (In response to an interviewer backstage at a Queen concert at the LA Forum, who asked: Can I tell my viewers that Michael Jackson is a Queen fan?)

When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people.

Families who have never worked a day in their lives having 4 or 5 kids and the rest of us having 1 or 2 means it’s not long before we’re drowning in a vast sea of unemployed wasters that we pay to keep! Iain Duncan Smith’s cap proposal is spot on!

Happy will be the men who, having the power and the love and the benevolent forecast to [create a park], will do it. They will not be forgotten. The trees and their lovers will sing their praises, and generations yet unborn will rise up and call them blessed.

We ate ice cubes because it felt like eating. We split a tube of toothpaste between us for dinner.