Rico Quotes

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

You know, you may not be born in Puerto Rico, but Puerto Rican is definitely born in you.

They (the people of Puerto Rico) are truly the sweetest people on earth.

At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back to comfort me with the notion that abundance is always within reach, if only one knows how to find it.

See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.

Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.

Every shot that kills ricochets.

Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else.

Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink.

I very seldom compromise. I am a Capricorn.

I'm a Capricorn, actually.

I’m not a true vegan. I dabble in sustainable fish and dawdle in the consumption of eggs. Steak doesn’t speak to me, and tempeh is so-so. I’ll savor a solitary apricot that’s been kissed by my baby.

When I left Chicago, people said, 'Careful with that Texas heat'. I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat.

Federal program and services outlay in Puerto Rico is approximately $10 billion per year.

God, how I ricochet between certainties and doubts.

A song is a song and a hit record can change a life.

There's one last thing we need to point out. And it is a fact that Puerto Rico is a colonial territory of the United States. This puts us in a very significant disadvantage to all of the other states and to all of the other American citizens. As a matter of comparative, the U.S. citizens, the Puerto Ricans that live in the United States have much better incomes, more than twice as much, participate in the labor force of greater scales, have better results in the education system and so forth.

All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only we set it apart to his service - just as a gardener brings his master a basket of apricots, and presents them; his lord thanks him, and perhaps gives him something for his pains, and yet the apricots were as much his lord's before as now.

I had such a great upbringing in Puerto Rico, and it was just a very normal life.

Puerto Rico is not a full part of the United States. We're a territory or a colonial territory.

The one key difference is that Puerto Rico is a colonial territory. We don't have representation. We have a difficult time getting funding from the federal government. This is critical component that we need to change.

I'm a Capricorn, and they flower late.

Puerto Rico lacks resources, but that's not the fault of the U.S.