A ship in the harbor is safe, but that’s not what a ship is for. — English Proverbs
If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him. — Seneca The Elder
And there's that one particular harbor Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within... — Jimmy Buffett
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage. — Henry Ward Beecher
A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat. — Paulo Coelho
The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats. — Paulo Coelho
Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit. — Brooks Atkinson
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Cancun...catch me in the room, eatin' grouper. — Ghostface Killah
A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for. — Albert Einstein
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful. — Fernando Pessoa
Short Puerto Quotes
I like them brown, yellow, Puerto Rican, or Haitian
Name is Phife Dawg from the Zulu nation. — Phife Dawg
They (the people of Puerto Rico) are truly the sweetest people on earth. — Johnny Depp
A black, a Puerto Rican and a Mexican are in a car. Who's driving? The police. — Muhammad Ali
My mom's Puerto Rican. That's why I'm so lively and colorful. — Aubrey Plaza
I didn't know I had this many fans in Puerto Rico. I'm going to carry this memory to my grave. — Allen Iverson
Federal program and services outlay in Puerto Rico is approximately $10 billion per year. — Dick Thornburgh
Yet, individuals and corporations in Puerto Rico pay no federal income tax. — Dick Thornburgh
I'm glad I escaped the clutches of those evil gnomes... I'm talking, of course, about Puerto Ricans. — Thom Yorke
I'd want Puerto Rico to become the 51st state of America. — Ricky Rossello
The first Latin music that blew my mind was bumba, which was a Puerto Rican beat. — David Johansen
Puerto Image Quotes
Puerto Rican Quotes
My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time. — Sammy Davis, Jr.
I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn't able to succeed at those institutions. — Sonia Sotomayor
I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past. I think we have to seek to create coalitional strategies that go beyond racial lines. We need to bring black communities, Chicano communities, Puerto Rican communities, Asian American communities together. — Angela Davis
Puerto Ricans are many colors - we are Spanish, we're French, we're Thai, Indian, we're almost black, some of us. — Rita Moreno
What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun. — Sarah Vaughan
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. — Marc Anthony
SoHo was called Hell's Hundred Acres because it was full of sweatshops - without fire escapes. Completely not up to code. Every once in a while, these buildings would burn and 26 Puerto Ricans would be killed. — Carl Andre
We have a pride of who we are as Latinos, regardless if we're Puerto Rican, Dominican, Venezuelan, and we're very proud of our customs and our history and our traditions and who we are. — Juan Luis Guerra
[The Land] is a film that just happens to be directed and written by a Puerto Rican guy with a black dad. It seemed like a very natural, human interaction between people who all just came from one common cesspool of bad luck. — Erykah Badu
I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed to many cultures. I experimented with Puerto Rican and Jamaican food. — Sayings
Puerto Rico Quotes
I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years. — David Ogilvy
However, the sovereignty of the states is constitutionally defined and recognized, while the powers of the local government in Puerto Rico are defined by, and subject to alteration under, federal statutory law. — Dick Thornburgh
I'm very used to hurricanes. I'm from Puerto Rico and we have 3 or 4 a year. When you have no power, no light, no email, no place to go, you realize who your loved ones are and where you are in your life at that moment. — Luis D. Ortiz
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. — Sayings
You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico. — Jennifer Esposito
In Puerto Rico, we have a lot of traditions. We eat a very typical thing that's called 'pasteles' - it's almost like a tamale made of bananas, and we make it all together. Like, all the women of the family unite, and it's a very big deal, a very big thing. — Joyce Giraud
My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate. — Aubrey Plaza
America has always been the richest and most secure, and sometimes the most dangerous country in the world. In the early years, the danger was to everybody near us, slaves, Native Americans, Mexicans. It finally expanded in 1898 to the Caribbean, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and the Philippines. — Noam Chomsky
I hope I will live to see a final meeting of the minds between Puerto Rico and statehood. But if I don’t live that long, I am certain it will happen. — Luis A. Ferre
If Congress does its job in this regard, the residents of Puerto Rico will be empowered to act in their own self-interest and express their future political status aspirations accordingly. — Dick Thornburgh
I've been fighting for more than 24 years and as I continue my ascendant career, I want to be true to myself. I want to try to be the best role model I can be for kids who might look into boxing as a sport and a professional career. I have and will always be a proud Puerto Rican. I have always been and always will be a proud gay man. — Sayings
On Saturday mornings I would walk to the Flavor Cup or Puerto Rico Importing coffee store to get my coffee. Often it was freshly roasted and the beans were still warm. Coffee was my nectar and my ambrosia: I was very careful about it. I decanted my beans into glass...and I ground them in little batches in my grinder. — Laurie Colwin
Internal self-government under a local constitution was authorized by Congress and approved by the residents in 1952, but federal law is supreme in Puerto Rico and residents do not have voting representation in the Congress. — Dick Thornburgh
The overwhelming majority of Puerto Rico is completely, completely alienated from the political structure. Colonialism is really, really strong and alive in Puerto Rico. And the politicians have taken full advantage of that. We have a debt of $74 billion, caused primarily by the system and the political structure that exists in Puerto Rico. — Oscar Lopez Rivera
Javy [Baez] grew up in Puerto Rico, played a lot of baseball as a youth, played a lot of winter ball. He's been taught properly and well. — Joe Maddon
It's amazing to be a Puerto Rican fighter, we have a great history of fighters. I say this all the time, 'I'm Puerto Rican, raised in Philadelphia so I got the best of both worlds. I got the Puerto Rican power and the Philly toughness. It comes a long way. — Danny Garcia
My mother's mother is Jewish and African, so I guess that would be considered Creole. My mother's father was Cherokee Indian and something else. My dad's mother's Puerto Rican and black, and his father was from Barbados. — Meagan Good
When I left Chicago, people said, 'Careful with that Texas heat'. I'm like, 'I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat. — Amaury Nolasco
In historical and constitutional terms, the recent political status vote in Puerto Rico was a necessary but obviously not decisive step on the road of self-determination leading to full self-government. — Dick Thornburgh
That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each. — Dick Thornburgh
Now that the there is a path for the people of Puerto Rico to express their self-determination on Puerto Rico's political status, there are some who seek to block that path. — Dick Thornburgh
I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent. — Philip Zimbardo
I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, I would probably be better suited as mayor of New York. — Geraldo Rivera
Without question, so many people, throughout my life, never think of Puerto Rico as part of the United States. — Sonia Sotomayor
Without question, so many people, throughout my life, never think of Puerto Rico as part of the United States. Many people have no idea what the relationship is between Puerto Rico and the United States. And certainly, I have been asked if we are citizens. — Sonia Sotomayor
I visit the island [Puerto Rico] as often as I humanly can. And I visit with community as frequently as possible, given the demands on me. I meet with kids. I meet with adults. I try to spend time and to listen to people talk about their lives. — Sonia Sotomayor
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! — Red Buttons
Automobile in America,Chromium steel in America,Wire-spoke wheel in America,Very big deal in America!Immigrant goes to America,Many hellos in America,Nobody knows in America,Puerto Rico's in America!I like the shores of America!Comfort is yours in America!Knobs on the doors in America!Wall-to-wall floors in America! — Stephen Sondheim
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