Quotes About Celia Cruz

#1. A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#2. When people hear me sing, I want them to be happy, happy, happy. I don't want them thinking about when there's not any money, or when there's fighting at home. My message is always felicidad - happiness.

Celia Cruz

#3. Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life.

Celia Cruz

#4. Forgiving is not forgetting. Forgiving is remembering without pain.

Celia Cruz

#5. If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow.

Celia Cruz

#6. My English is not very good-looking.

Celia Cruz

#7. The U.S. should support the Nigerian government to stay in Sierra Leone under the ECOMOG umbrella. The U.S. should also support other countries, including Ghana, in ECOMOG until stability is established.

Ed Royce

#8. Intimidated by her, too, but they recognized her value. Before long,

Kate White

#9. My life is singing. I don't plan on retiring. I plan to die on a stage. I can have a headache but when it's time to sing and I step on that stage there is no more headache.

Celia Cruz

#10. I always clean before the cleaning lady comes. If not, when I come home, I can't find anything. Cleaning ladies are always hiding things you leave out.

Celia Cruz

#11. I love living on that stage. Without that, I'd die.

Celia Cruz

#12. Earth's immune system - its rapid response team of self-protection - becomes invigorated at times of peril. And one sees it at play now in the upwelling of grassroots work aimed at finding a sustainable future.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#13. It's always interesting researching characters and as I get older and the more that I work in this business, I do more and more of it because I realize how important it is.

Max Thieriot

#14. When opportunity presents itself grab it. Hold on tight and don't let go.

Celia Cruz

#15. He believed so strongly in things: justice and fair play and hard work and a world where right just had to be right.

Fredrik Backman

#16. Any beauty you see in me is only a reflection of Him, any ugliness, a reflection of my self.

Yasmin Mogahed

#17. You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But as long as those things are there, I don't plan to stop. There is nothing that makes me feel better than to be with my public.

Celia Cruz