Miralda Moreno Quotes

I would have my own stories from the island that, for so long, had been an heirloom I couldn't touch. ~ Nina Moreno

I was home, and talking about Cuba had no place here. Mimi was never returning, my mother was always leaving, and I was a flightless bird left at her harbor, searching for answers that were buried at the bottom of a sea I could not know. ~ Nina Moreno

Moreno, Morelos, Cantine, Gomez, Gutierrez, Villanousul, Ureta, Licon, Navarro, Iturbi; Jorge, Filomena, Nena, Manuel, Jose, Tomas, Ramona. This man walked and this man sang and this man had three wives; and this man died of this, and that of that, and the third from another thing, and the fourth was shot, and the fifth was stabbed and the sixth fell straight down dead; and the seventh drank deep and died dead, and the eighth died in love, and the ninth fell from him horse, and the tenth coughed blood, and the eleventh stopped his heart, and the twelfth used to laugh much, and the thirteenth was a dancing one, and the fourteenth was most beautiful of all, the fifteenth had ten children and the sixteenth is one of those children as is the seventeenth; and the eighteenth was Tomas and did well with his guitar; the next three cut maize in their fields, had three lovers each; the twenty-second was never loved; the twenty-third sold tortillas, patting and shaping them each at the curb before the Opera House with her little charcoal stove; and the twenty-fourth beat his wife and now she walks proudly in the town and is merry with new men and here he stands bewildered by this unfair thing, and the twenty-fifth drank several quarts of river with his lungs and was pulled forth in a net, and the twenty-sixth was a great thinker and his brain now sleeps like a burnt plum in his skull. ~ Ray Bradbury

You've got to stop eating unhealthy crap. You've got to eat vegetables, fruit and lean meat. ~ Mike Moreno

She'd always been so afraid that the land would eat her, but it was obvious now that the answer was you had to eat it. ~ Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Vampires drained you one way or another. ~ Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Is that why you stare at the stars?" he asked. "Are you searching for beauty or dreaming with your eyes wide open? ~ Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Anyone and everyone can and will succeed. ~ Mike Moreno

Never be sorry." He looks into my eyes. "Not for me. Our world is in chaos, every one of us suffers in some way. My mind," he taps the side of his head, "is where I suffer. Inside my thoughts, there's chaos, insanity, fear. I cannot fight it. I cannot push it away. But inside all that chaos, there's you, shining bright, my own star to light the way and show me the path home. Never be sorry for who you are," he says, more serious than I have ever seen him. "Because who you are is everything to me ~ Kendra Moreno

Religion, in any form, is always interesting to me because of how powerful it is. Not even the religion itself, but to the people that follow it ... The effect that it has had on people's minds. ~ Chino Moreno

No," he assured her. "The old Alex would've had plenty to say." She lifted an amused eyebrow as he continued. "Old Alex would've instantly hated that douche. ~ Elizabeth Reyes

He made her forget not through arcane sorcery but with his mere presence. ~ Silvia Moreno-Garcia

I deliberately state my age because it keeps me honest. I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you. ~ Rita Moreno

Anything I do with Team Sleep, I'd do with Deftones as well. ~ Chino Moreno

I used to second guess myself all the time. I can sit there and work in circles when I'm nervous about what I'm doing. ~ Chino Moreno

Retirement is just
not in my DNA. ~ Rita Moreno

It wasn't fair. But there wasn't an "after" in stories, was there? The curtain simply fell. She was not in a fairy tale, in any case. What "after" could there be? ~ Silvia Moreno-Garcia

I don't want to go back. Not for a thousand years, and yet…I don't know what I'll do if I'm not taking care of Grandfather and fetching the groceries. I've never seriously thought of it, and now it seems I should. Or maybe not, maybe it's too soon. Maybe there's no point in talking about automobiles when I don't know if I'll live to be nineteen. But it would be fun, wouldn't it? To ride one. Maybe to ride it with you. ~ Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Brand-new research suggests that the faster you take weight off, the longer you keep it off. Now that's a reason for dieters everywhere to rejoice. ~ Mike Moreno

Discipline is freedom. It is you getting yourself to do what you really want to do. ~ Patricia Moreno

Look at you, like the dawn. You can't understand, of course, but one day you'll want to be new again. You'll wish to return to this moment of perfection when you were the embodiment of all promises. ~ Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The things you name grow in power. ~ Silvia Moreno-Garcia

He didn't say a word and she didn't ask anything else, just ran her fingers through his hair until his breathing began to calm. Without letting go of her or even pulling away to face her he finally whispered against her ear, "Please don't leave me. I promise I'll try harder." Slowly he pulled away and their eyes met. "I'm nothing without you, Izzy. ~ Elizabeth Reyes

He'd fallen in love slowly and quietly, and it was a quiet sort of love, full of phrases left unsaid, laced with dreams. ~ Silvia Moreno-Garcia

I'm 81 and I'm in the prime of my life. ~ Rita Moreno

They were eternal, never changing, and yet they had changed. ~ Silvia Moreno-Garcia

It's all experience; not anything original ~ Francisco Moreno

Old Korn records had so much intensity. ~ Chino Moreno

When I see old friends, I'm very excited. ~ Chino Moreno

I grew up listening to so much different pop and stuff other than just aggressive music. ~ Chino Moreno

Turns out you don't need a heart to live, after all. ~ Silvia Moreno-Garcia

They made me use an accent, which I wasn't thrilled about because a lot of us, obviously, don't have them. ~ Rita Moreno