Top 661 Quotes & Sayings by Puerto Rican Authors - Page 11

My biggest regret is that I didn't teach my two children how to speak Spanish.

Pageants were an amazing platform that gave a little girl like me from the mountains of my beautiful Puerto Rico a chance to travel, explore the world, meet amazing people, work for great charities and be a voice to empower women wherever I went. For all those things, I am grateful.

The first day that I get to Fort Myers, there was a newspaper down there. The newspaper said, 'Puerto Rican hot dog arrives in town.'

I love 'I Love Lucy,' and I have the DVD set of 'I Love Lucy.'

I've been blessed because every single role I've done has been an educated person. I've never done the stereotypical Latina, even though I have an accent - I've always been able to play educated people. That's a good thing!

I used really into inline skating when it was the craze in the nineties and I got a really bad scar to prove it.

Whenever I get a little chance to get to Orlando, I like to take a couple days' break with the family, just hang out, go clubbing around town.

Absolutely, I'll always be a dancer.

I know how to market a lot through social media. My social media, the numbers is crazy.

I want to mesmerize people. I study dancing, so I use my hands. The people love all that kind of stupid things. So I used the stupid things to teach, to help, to serve, to give a beautiful message of love and peace.

I used to be so embarrassed by salsa; I wasn't into it.

I've never had a stylist. My style is very distinctive from where I am from in Puerto Rico: a housing project in Carolina.

I am God's perfect son. And I am love and my life shall never lack in love.

I got a lot of money like invested in watches. When I buy watches I make sure, like you could go buy and they're still gonna have the same price, the same value, or maybe more.

All religions have a point of convergence.

I don't think Hank Greenberg thought of himself as the first Jewish baseball player - he was a baseball player who happened to be Jewish. I'm an artist who happens to be Latin.

I take a part of my monthly earnings, and I donate it to my foundation. And this is to distribute hot meals, distribute gifts to children. We help by giving clothing and shoes to people that don't have the resources.

My daughter is my number one fan. She has always been incredibly supportive, and she tells like it is and how it is.

The truth is I made a few good movies in the '50s, then went into freefall.

Be proud to be Latino and never lose that pride!

I never like to get ahead of myself. I'm not one of those people that do that.

I've always had a crazy sense of humor. So the ballet probably wouldn't have been enough for me. I had to clown around a little bit more.

It is unbelievable that the federal court itself ignores that rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution apply in Puerto Rico.

The people want to know is Walter straight, homosexual, metrosexual, bisexual - I don't care. Here I am, I am who I am, that's it.

I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player.

Many people think that Puerto Rico would be a Democratic state just by virtue of the inclination of the Latino population in the United States, but the reality is that I see Puerto Rico as a battleground state.

Cardi B really is like having a sister in the industry. She's a real person, extremely humble. She's amazing.

Look at my skin - I am not of the white people.

I always knew that I'd be big.

I felt bad about the controversy because they stopped playing my songs on American radio stations. But there was nothing wrong with what I did. Now everybody sings the national anthem the way they want.

You don't make it anywhere without someone helping you out.

Everything I do I do it for my family.

Expenditures have gone rampant in Puerto Rico: lack of accountability - total lack of accountability.

I really like Billie Eilish's music. It's really different. My music ain't like hers but I like her music, her vibe.

Brooklyn was a famous team. I wanted to play for the Dodgers.

'Aura' is what one reflects in the heart, what you bring into the world, and what people want to learn from you.

I don't have a problem with a board that advises, that supervises, one with which we can have a discussion. But we will never accept a board that has control over Puerto Rico's affairs.

I train every day for 3 to 4 and a half hours.

After I failed to win the Most Valuable Player Award in 1960, I made up my mind I'd win the batting title in 1961 for the first time.

Pitch me outside, I will hit .400. Pitch me inside, and you will not find the ball.

Working on 'Dexter' is like shooting one big movie every year.

I know Ritchie Valens in 1959 had 'La Bamba' but to be totally Spanish - because, you know, Ritchie didn't speak Spanish - but to be a total Latin artist like myself, to be out in a field where there weren't any categories for Latinos... I felt good that I was maybe - I didn't know it at the time - but I felt good that I opened the door.

I think it's my responsibility, as a person of influence... to sometimes try to do what I can.

Back in the 1700s, the people of Tennessee wanted to become a state, but there was not a lot of action or movement in the bullpen so that Tennessee could transition as a state.

Cancer is tough. Even saying it, it's a tough word to say.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

There's a lot of people that are in need. We're going little by little... I'm only one person, but we are contributing.

Growing up Latino is having a grandmother dancing when she's cooking. It's music all over the place. It's endless Christmases. It's, ah, twenty thousand cousins. It's yummy food.

The day I stop learning and I don't try to make myself better on the guitar, that's the day I hang it up and say, 'Goodbye.'

I spent a lot of time with the LAPD. I spent six weeks training, weapons training, ride-alongs, surveillance, interviewing them, in all different departments and divisions.

In Puerto Rico we dance to everything.

To be part of the All-Star group is a great honor. It means a lot.

Imitation is flattery. There was once a survey of who was the most imitated celebrity in Latin American countries, especially in Brazil and Argentina, and I was in third place after Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson.

Eliminate laws and dogmas that hinder the progress of the world and develop the heart in the form of compassion.

I'm always going to play with chips on my shoulder - with something to prove.

My grandkids are everything to me. For me, family is all!

I can wear a sexy dress to any red carpet event. My wedding is my chance to go all the way and wear a princess silhouette.

I've always had a struggle trying to get a hair campaign. It's mind-boggling.

When you get older, you've got to find some things differently because sometimes your body won't allow you do what you. When you're younger you can do a lot of stuff, moving around.

I think that, because of the way I catch, that I'm one of the best catchers to have ever played baseball.