Elian Gonzalez Quotes

#1. The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a soliloquised combat. We call the enemy not what we think he is but what we think he would least like to be called.

C.S. Lewis

#2. I have seen heroics - soldiers saving other soldiers' lives - and horrors.

Richard Engel

#3. The masculine sun/solar consciousness shines its vision, direction, and warmth onto the earth; the feminine moon consciousness reflects the light, thus illuminating the dark.

Elisa Romeo

#4. I need to know how you did it it.
I did it, said Sweeney, with the air of one confiding a huge secret, witch panache and style. That's how I did it.
(Shadow & Mad Sweeney)

Neil Gaiman

#5. Why isn't anybody here?" Minho asked. He turned in a circle, searching the place. "If they're holding people in there, why no guards?

James Dashner

#6. Fidel Castro for me is like a father.

Elian Gonzalez

#7. It's the least that someone can do, someone like me that owes so much to this people and to the revolution: study hard, but more than that, defend them under any circumstance.

Elian Gonzalez

#8. [Exchange] the galling burden of bachelorship for the easy yoke of matrimony.

James Madison

#9. I believe in miracles.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. I don't profess to have any religion, but if I did, my God would be Fidel Castro. He is like a ship that knew to take his crew on the right path.

Elian Gonzalez

#11. Left alone with the dial tone ... excuse me, operator, why is no one listening?

Melina Marchetta

#12. Some suggested over the weekend that it is wrong to expect Elian Gonzalez to live in a place that tolerates no dissent or freedom of political expression. They were talking about Miami.

Katie Couric

#13. Wherever I go, there's always a child, an old woman, that comes to me and wants to meet me. Not because I am famous but because they suffered with my family.

Elian Gonzalez

#14. I learned that I' have to be detached if I was ever to achieve anything at all.

Iain Pears

#15. Because he'll take me to Cuba and I don't want to go to Cuba.

Elian Gonzalez

#16. Never even attempt to disturb anyone's tendencies.

Swami Vivekananda

#17. I've coined new words, like, misunderstanding and Hispanically.

George W. Bush

#18. The Biblical educator must not only have a Christian understanding of the material, he must have a Biblical understanding of the student. If he does not, then the result will be a hybrid Christian methodology employed to achieve a humanistic goal.

Douglas Wilson

#19. He who is last had best laugh.

Gore Vidal

#20. I'd like to go to Cuba.

Elian Gonzalez

#21. You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.

Patrick Swayze

#22. I want to know what changed in fully modern humans, compared with Neanderthals, that made a difference. What made it possible for us to build up these enormous societies, and spread around the globe, and develop the technology that I think no one can doubt is unique to humans.

Svante Paabo