Top 368 Puerto Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on November 18, 2024.
When I was 11, I went to Puerto Rico for a month to stay with my grandmother. To see the way people lived there and experience my own culture was wonderful.
A lot of people say things because I wasn't born here, but in my heart, I know that I am a true Puerto Rican champion.
Puerto Ricans are many colors - we are Spanish, we're French, we're Thai, Indian, we're almost black, some of us.
My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate.
We have over 30 dams in Puerto Rico, and I think only one works. We're here in the rain forest, and we have plenty of water. It's insane.
I'm very proud being Puerto Rican. I'm American. That is what America is made of - people from different lands.
I feel that, as a Puerto Rican and Latin American musician, a lot of the stuff that I write, even if I mean it or not, is gonna have some elements of that.
I've never had a stylist. My style is very distinctive from where I am from in Puerto Rico: a housing project in Carolina.
When I left Chicago, people said, 'Careful with that Texas heat'. I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat.
I just want to go down as one of the best Puerto Rican and best Latin fighters ever.
It is interesting that both Chicano and Puerto Rican art in the United States form an important part of the Civil Rights legacy and dialog.
Puerto Rico got too futuristic with the electronic reggaeton. It lost the essence of the reggae music.
For far too long, Washington has denied the American citizens of Puerto Rico vital human services and adequate health care funding.
Being Puerto Rican, born and raised on the streets of New York, you go, 'Wow, you're still friends with your ex, man? Really? That's weird.' I don't play that.
I have the Puerto Rico power and the Philadelphia toughness and Philadelphia skills.
I'm a little bit of everything. Sometimes people think I'm not Puerto Rican, because my name doesn't sound Spanish.
Puerto Rico is not a full part of the United States. We're a territory or a colonial territory.
My heart is half Puerto Rican, half Canadian. That is how I feel.
When I left Chicago, people said, 'Careful with that Texas heat'. I'm like, 'I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat.
When I married Wilnelia, one of the first things I wanted to know about Puerto Rico was the quality of the golf courses.
It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty.
I love being in Puerto Rico. I am so excited that they embrace me, and I feel that I am giving back to my fans.
The Puerto Rican doctor, who wrote all his prescriptions with spray paint. Never got a dinner!
In Puerto Rico, there has developed a culture of taking out loans and not paying them back. That has ended.
It is unbelievable that the federal court itself ignores that rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution apply in Puerto Rico.
I'm a Puerto Rican woman whose family has roots in Regla de Ocha, also known as Santeria.
A strong, durable Puerto Rican economy will leave the island better prepared to handle future natural disasters.
When I was 13 years old, my family and I lived on a farm in Puerto Rico that didn't have clean, running water all the time.
I was aware that my nomination was drawing a lot of attention, particularly in the Latino world, not just in Puerto Rico. It was touching.
When I left Chicago, people said, 'Careful with that Texas heat'. I'm like, 'I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat.'
I like them brown, yellow, Puerto Rican, or Haitian
Name is Phife Dawg from the Zulu nation.
Drugs in a disco are great for white people because it allows them to feel more Puerto Rican while dancing.
I'm not messing with skiing. You can't get this Puerto Rican on the slope. Uh-uh.
Puerto Rico is one of those places you can be as quiet or as crazy as you want, because there's so much nightlife. I have to take the craziness carefully.
'Teen Beach Movie' was a lot of fun because we were in Puerto Rico on an island - you can't even call it work!
The fight with Camacho is very attractive. It's a natural fight, and one that Mexico, Puerto Rico and the world wants to see.
In Texas, if your name is Carlos, you're a Mexican. In Florida, you're a Cuban. In New York, you're a Puerto Rican. And I come here and I find out I'm an Eskimo.
I come from a pop background, but I'm also a Puerto Rican and I do feel this music. My approach to salsa is a humble one, and I defy anybody to prove that I'm faking it.
They (the people of Puerto Rico) are truly the sweetest people on earth.
I fought Miguel Cotto in Madison Square Garden on the eve of the Puerto Rican Day parade - it was like fighting the devil in Hell.
Aside from being a Latina, my family immigrated from Puerto Rico and Yugoslavia so I know all about that. I wouldn’t be able to do what I do today if they didn’t come to America. Everybody has an immigration story.
I've seen a lot of the great fighters, so I've always been a fan of the Puerto Rican fighters and I'm happy to be one myself.
My brother, Mario, is in show business and so are all my cousins on my dad's side. We come from a family of musicians. My grandmother's sister in Puerto Rico plays five instruments.
But the only comparison that I want to Lenny Bruce is that I'm funny. I'm Freddie Prinze, Puerto Rican all the way.
After my homeland of Puerto Rico, Miami has been the most important city in my life and career.
Federal program and services outlay in Puerto Rico is approximately $10 billion per year.
Puerto Rico's participation per capita in the armed forces is more than most states, yet they can't vote for their commander in chief.
Some people wanted me deported - as if you can be deported to Puerto Rico.
I think I became funny because I grew up in the Bronx. I was small and weak and Jewish instead of large and fierce and Puerto Rican. You need something.
Stop throwing us all together like some sort of Puerto Ricaminican Tex-Mex buffet.
The one key difference is that Puerto Rico is a colonial territory. We don't have representation. We have a difficult time getting funding from the federal government. This is critical component that we need to change.
Peter Minuet, who said to the Indians in modern-day Manhattan, Will you accept a check from a Puerto Rican bank? Never got a dinner!
I've got the fighting Irish, and Puerto Ricans are some of the best fighters in the world. I'm proud of who I am, but it doesn't define me as a person.
Without question, so many people, throughout my life, never think of Puerto Rico as part of the United States.
America is the only place in the world where you can work in an Arab home in a Scandinavian neighborhood and find a Puerto Rican baby eating matzo balls with chopsticks.
Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico.
Coming from Puerto Rico and having that be my musical universe for the majority of my life no doubt strongly impacts my music.
I'd say it's even harder to cater to Hispanics than to the lesbian or gay community. We're so culturally separated: Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, Venezuelans. We're all so different.
I think it's amazing that I can go out there and be myself, and the fact that I'm carrying Puerto Rico on my back a little bit is such an honor.
I'm proud of who I am, and I'm proud I grew up in Puerto Rico.
