Havana Quotes - Page 2

• If the birth of a genius resembles that of an idiot, the end of a Havana Corona resembles that of a 5-cent cigar.

  Sacha Guitry

  Genius, Idiot, Birth

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• No, he was no such charlatan--
  Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan--
  Full of gasconade and bravado,
  But a regular, rich Don Rataplane,
  Santa Claus de la Muscavado,
  Senor Grandissimo Bastinado!
  His was the rental of half Havana
  And all Matanzas; and Santa Ana,
  Rich as he was, could hardly hold
  A candle to light the mines of gold
  Our Cuban owned.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Light, Gold, Hoboken

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• More than anything I want to be able to go back to Cuba, to have a house to visit there, to know my roots. Then, at last, I could sing for my people.

  Gloria Estefan

  People, Lasts, Return

  "Don't Cry for Me Fidel Castro". www.cubanet.org. May 15, 2000.

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• There was a lot of stuff happening in Havana that was being heard and appreciated by New Orleans musicians because of this situation. And vice versa.

  Ruben Blades

  New Orleans, Vices, Musician

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• Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my upper lip, it has a sort of Havana curl.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Smoking, Curls, Mouths

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• There aren't that many galleries in Havana. There are a few state galleries and an ever-increasing but still limited number of independent galleries; there's no comparison with the number in New York.

  Rachael Price

  New York, Independent, Numbers

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I have already transmitted to Congress the report of the naval court of inquiry on the destruction of the battleship Maine in the harbor of Havana during the night of the fifteenth of February. The destruction of that noble vessel has filled the national heart with inexpressible horror. Two hundred and fifty-eight brave sailors and marines and two officers of our Navy, reposing in the fancied security of a friendly harbor, have been hurled to death, grief and want brought to their homes and sorrow to the nation.

  William McKinley

  Grief, Home, Heart

  Harry Joseph Sievers, William McKinley (1970). “William McKinley, 1843-1901: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids”, Oceana Publications

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• Michael still thought of Havana as home, because he was born there. And he had been Miguel Arroya there.
  Here, he was Michael.

  Mike Lupica

  Home, Born, Stills

  Mike Lupica (2007). “Heat”, p.15, Penguin

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