Elian Quotes

#1. I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether it's a man or a woman.

BD Wong

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

Elian Gonzalez

#3. 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

#4. If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.

P.G. Wodehouse

#5. It is a striking example of modern conservatism's emphasis on the moral worth of the individual ... When I look at the debate over Elian ... I have to say that rarely have I been prouder of my fellow conservatives.

Ramesh Ponnuru

#6. P.P.S. AND YOU CAN TALK. "Just say the word." JUST SAY THE WORD? What kind of expression is that? WHAT WORD WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO SAY ANYWAY? MORON?
Letter from Emily to Charles.

Jaclyn Moriarty

#7. I played Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz.' That was my first role on stage.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

#8. I believe when you're writing film or television, you can't rely on a crutch or rule that exists outside of the narrative of the film.

David S.Goyer

#9. 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

#10. You can recollect the sayings of great men, you treasure up verse of renowned poets; ought you not be equally profound in your knowledge of the words of God, so that you may be able to quote them readily when you would solve a difficulty or overthrow a doubt?

Charles Spurgeon

#11. Today we are putting our hopes in materialism, in technological progress, and in freedom from moral absolutes. They have all failed. They've failed because they've been powerless to change the human heart. What is the answer? There is hope, if we will turn to God.

Billy Graham

#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. It is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.

Thomas Hobbes

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

Elian Gonzalez

#16. In consigning Elian back to slavery without a hearing, this administration is setting back the cause of freedom
in this country and in Cuba.

David Limbaugh

#17. There are times when silence is better than any other words in the dictionary...

Francis Chalifour

#18. With some actors, you can tell when they're acting all by themselves, no matter who else is in the screen.

John Travolta

#19. The [Elian] raid ... was almost worth it, if only to watch Jesse Jackson ... defending an armed pre-dawn raid by the US government on a minority household.

Rich Galen

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

Elian Gonzalez

#21. How many men ever went to a barbecue and would let one man take off the table what's intended for 9/10th of the people to eat? The only way you'll ever be able to feed the balance of the people is to make that man come back and bring back some of that grub that he ain't got no business with!

Huey Long

#22. I have more than 100 honorary Ph.D.s.

Lech Walesa

#23. Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated.

Liz Williams

#24. There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.

Martin Heidegger