Rivera Quotes & Sayings

A freedom given up is not so easily regained. — Rivera Sun

I listen to Christian music. — Mariano Rivera

His anger seemed out of proportion to the crime. Men. Give them an orgasm and they want ... well, probably more orgasms. — Kate Meader

Mother loved dance so much that she thought (ballerina) Margot Fonteyn should be the president. — Chita Rivera

When boys talked, it sounded like feral dogs barking. They fiended for attention, were always aggressive, and made me wish I could put them down. — Gabby Rivera

I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman ... it amazes me still. — Jenni Rivera

I'm bugged because I can't believe I can't speak every language there is. But I feel I can when I sit and am with somebody, and I can dance for them. Because dance is dialogue without language. — Chita Rivera

My father is the man that, he will give you what he doesn't have, still. If he has 10 bucks and you need 10 bucks because you're sick or you don't have nothing to eat, he will give you 10 bucks. He will be at zero, but he will help you. That's the kind of man that my father is. — Mariano Rivera

You are the evil scientist of your desires. - Ignacio Rivera — Tristan Taormino

Geraldo Rivera says Osama bin Laden is hiding out in Pakistan ... which means the most hated man in Afghanistan is now Geraldo Rivera. — Conan O'Brien

I recommend her to you, not as a husband but as an enthusiastic admirer of her work, acid and tender, hard as steel and delicate and fine as a butterfly's wing, lovable as a beautiful smile, and as profound and cruel as the bitterness of life. — Diego Rivera

That is entirely fitting I'm sure, but I personally can't get over the memory of 2005. When Michael Jackson stood essentially alone and accused and convicted in the minds of many of the most perverse crime. — Geraldo Rivera

There's a lot of things more than baseball that I want to do. — Mariano Rivera

I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European. — Chita Rivera

Rich people who own mansions on the beach shouldn't get federal subsidies. If you want to stay there, take the risk. — Geraldo Rivera

Usually, when a young girl is pregnant, she drops out of school and concentrates on being a mother. I thought that's what I had to do, but my counselors told me there was no way they would let me drop out. I had too much promise. — Jenni Rivera

If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good. — Mariano Rivera

There's no guessing when it comes to being in love, there's just knowing. — Michele L. Rivera

As we trust the Lord, we start "emptying" ourselves with things that tie us or entangle us in order to be filled by God's grace and the fullness of Him who fills everything in every way. — Yilda B. Rivera

My passion for music is one of my greatest loves. — Naya Rivera

I don't wait for people to give me respect. I always give them respect. — Mariano Rivera

I find it's really hard for anybody to meet anyone. I'm not big on dates anyways. I still have to work that out. — Naya Rivera

The United States Central Command of the Armed Forces has asked Geraldo Rivera to leave Iraq. It should also be noted that the only three other people that the U.S. military has asked to leave Iraq are Saddam Hussein and his two sons. — Jon Stewart

McKinney, Texas is the number one place to live in the country. It's certainly the number place to live in Texas according to Forbes and all these other. Wonderfully integrated, it's upscale. — Geraldo Rivera

I am convinced that being fully committed to the moment, without any worries about the past or projections into the future, is the best attribute a closer can have. You wonder why the shelf life of so many short relievers is, well, so short? Why guys can be unhittable for a year or two and then disappear? It's because it takes a ton of concentration, and self-belief, to stay in the moment in this way and not let the highs and lows mess with your psyche. — Mariano Rivera

Looking back doesn't have to be painful. — Chita Rivera

If he's not, there's gonna be a real fight when Brandon finds out. — Bella Jeanisse

I miss everything that makes up Panama. I don't have a preference. I love my country. — Mariano Rivera

The greatest mistake we can make is to stay on the ground after falling. — Victor Manuel Rivera

I'm a positive man. — Mariano Rivera

He [Donald Trump] is a tough boss. I've known him for decades. He hasn't changed very much. He's a driven person, highly intelligent, and he's very motivated, very charismatic, and he is tough as nails in the sense there's no slack there. You can't put anything over on Donald. Donald can see right through someone trying to dissemble or spin stuff. — Geraldo Rivera

Find 'em hot, leave 'em wet," he murmured.
"Well known firefighter maxim. — Kate Meader

I don't feel invincible because I'm human. — Mariano Rivera

Am I the only one who thinks Nancy Grace's relentless cheer leading for Jodi Arias' death gross & excessive? The anchor as executioner?! — Geraldo Rivera

If it's a phase, so what? If it's your whole life, who cares? You're destined to evolve and understand yourself in ways you never imagined before. And you've got our blood running through your beautiful veins, so no matter what, you've been blessed with the spirit of women who know how to love. — Gabby Rivera

(...)my mom was the gravitational pull that kept me stuck to this Earth — Gabby Rivera

I like a calm life where nobody bothers me. — Mariano Rivera

Freedom keeps us soaring, but quarreling destroys our ability to fly. — Victor Manuel Rivera

You have to trust a TRUE compliment as muc as a critique. — Diego Rivera

Love has no why, no how, no who. It just is. — Michele L. Rivera

For people to even think that I'd be considered or a good candidate for a supporting actress nomination is mind blowing to me. — Naya Rivera

I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the Catholics, as I am not an enemy of the tuberculars, the myopic or the paralytics; you cannot be an enemy of the sick, only their good friend in order to help them cure themselves. — Diego Rivera

I want to be the Mexican-American Oprah Winfrey. That's a small goal, isn't it? That's something that I want. And of course not just to host, I want to OWN it! So, that's in my future. — Jenni Rivera

You see, that's the thing about a girl,
Her kisses leave you breathless
Her eyes become your world
But it never seems to matter where she stops, lingers or starts
She'll sometimes revive it,
sometimes break it,
but she will always steal your heart — Michele L. Rivera

Colorado is a swing state, like Nevada, like North Carolina, like Florida. It all depends. [Donald] Trump has offended Mexicans and Muslims and millennials and some women. Will those offended people be energized to show up in the way that Trump supporters are energized to show up? It will be an energy. — Geraldo Rivera

...There are no 'what ifs.' You have to jump in. You go in all the way or back off completely. Take her in with all that you've got or cut her loose. — Michele L. Rivera

One thing about these storms, we know how disruptive things can be when we depend on the system to keep working. What would happen if the terrorists do it? Knock down the power, destroy bridges, cut the water supply? — Geraldo Rivera

Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants. — Geraldo Rivera

All of the moments where I was made to feel like an outsider in a group that was supposed to have room for me added up and left me feeling so much shame. — Gabby Rivera

On screen, we have to pretend we hate each other, or dislike each other, or don't want to talk or listen to each other, but off camera, it's just one big happy family. We hang out off the show and we play cards together and go have dinner together. — Emilio Rivera

When a Spanish man cries it's not a sign of weakness. — Geraldo Rivera

Jaime Rivera gaped in disbelief as the cadreman took at least five direct hits and didn't go down. And then the trooper who should have been dead was coming straight at him, pistol in one hand and some sort of sword in the other.
The pistol came up, and Rivera recoiled as the first penetrator spalled his visor. It didn't punch through, but the incredible impact, less than ten centimeters in front of his eyes half-stunned him. It was only for an instant, no more than a single heartbeat, but that was long enough.
His vision had just begun to refocus when the force blade in Alicia DeVries' right hand decapitated him in a fountain of blood. — David Weber

This is the difference time creates
We bleed our misbehavior
And in silent prayer, repent
It is only necessary that we fall away again
Into love — Michele L. Rivera

Being a mother by far is my favorite and most important career. — Jenni Rivera

I've had wonderful collaborators. They're very different, just as actors are. Working on a show with Nathan Lane is different from working on a show with Chita Rivera. It keeps you on your toes because it's different every time. — Terrence McNally

In certain company
Often the uninvited
We react
We transform one another — Michele L. Rivera

The real Michael Jackson that has not been seen ... with children, one in diapers, the other two toddlers. — Geraldo Rivera

From the time I was 16 to really up until turning 21, the roles were really, really few and far between. I had people say that I just wasn't a good singer. They didn't know what to do with me; I would never fit in any markets. I almost quit acting altogether. — Naya Rivera

You will meet people who'll change the course of your life forever. Learn when to hold onto yourself and when to fly directly into the storm. — Gabby Rivera

When somebody elses happiness makes you happy, it means you are a person with a big heart. — Jenni Rivera

I watch Pretty Little Liars with my best friend Telly. We go to each other's houses when it airs and we watch it. — Naya Rivera

I think that the, Ted Cruz is not even a natural-born citizen, argument will resonate for at least the next few weeks. — Geraldo Rivera

I'm going to love you without being in love with you. — Gabby Rivera

I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way. — Chita Rivera

Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment. — Diego Rivera

This is a sleaze bag murdering dog and he [O.J. Simpson] has played us for fools. And the worst thing he did was exacerbate the racial divide in this country. He divided black and white America. — Geraldo Rivera

If fear appears at your door you have two options, either you choose to let it in or you choose to grab onto the Lord and the promise of His presence no matter what. — Yilda B. Rivera

The key to success in life is getting up early. — Jenni Rivera

It's not good or bad, but closers have changed things. I don't think you are going to win a World Series without one. Where would the Yankees be without Mariano Rivera? — Bruce Sutter

No one else has ever opened doors for me. I opened them myself. — Jenni Rivera

Give Hamas 90 days to pick a lane, then react. — Geraldo Rivera

(...)my love for you is deeper than anything that happened between us. My love for you is the sun, the sky, and the moon. It's the air I breathe. It lives in everything I do. It's better than good. It's everlasting. — Gabby Rivera

It has been said by many that a true love story has no happy ending simply because the truest of loves never ends. It is immortal. This is the kind of love that lives forever in your heart as a feeling you will always feel, a place you can always return to. — Michele L. Rivera

The dirtier your Bible, the cleaner your heart! — Victor Manuel Rivera

It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics. — Geraldo Rivera

I have a lot of respect for the bikers, which I've always had. — Emilio Rivera

Just remember, someday you might be asking for forgiveness. And if that day were to come, you would want it, wouldn't you? — Michele L. Rivera

Autistic children often show no real fears of danger despite obvious risks of harm. This may be easy to spot in a young child who bolts for the street at a moment's notice, or plunges into water with no fear of its depth without being able to swim. But what does it look like in an older child, one on the cusp of adolescence? — Jeannie Davide-Rivera

I feel like showering more than once a day or every day is such a white people thing. — Naya Rivera

You planned this? Why?"
"Yes." He walked over to one of the picnic tables and grabbed a backpack, which just happened to be there. He pulled a blanket from the pack and laid it down on the sand next to her.
She jumped up and away from him with her fins in her hands. She held them up like a weapon, not taking her eyes off of him. He saw her reaction and it didn't take long to figure out the thoughts running through her mind.
"Hey! No. It's not what you think." He stepped closer, but she swung her fins at him and whacked him across the arm. "Ouch!" He looked at her like she was insane.
"Stay away from me. This is so not happening. I'll hit you again, I swear. — S. Jackson Rivera

I did not know it then, but Frida had already become the most important fact in my life. And would continue to be, up to the moment she died, 27 years later. — Diego Rivera

To live is to walk beside Death but never join hands. ~ Captain Buck "Slackeye" Roberts — Kai McCarthy

You gonna get a cut?" Blue Lips asked. "I'm afraid of looking like a dyke," I said. "Are you a dyke?" "I think so." "Then no matter what you do with your hair, you're gonna look like a dyke," Blue Lips said. They — Gabby Rivera

If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them. — Naya Rivera

You're just trying to throw the best pitch you can and make sure you hit your spots. I don't have to force nobody. — Mariano Rivera

I don't think any professional accepts defeat. — Mariano Rivera

life might not be the way you want it to be but at the end of the day life is the only thing you have — Matthew Rivera

Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white. — Geraldo Rivera

I suppose if you're scared enough, you're capable of doing anything. — Tomas Rivera

I fear depression - intensely. It is by far the most painful ailment I have ever faced. It is the thing that slammed into me, ran me over repeatedly, and then kicked me in the head when I was down. I struggled for change, for understanding, to figure out what was "wrong" with me - no one knew. Or at least, they didn't guess correctly. — Jeannie Davide-Rivera

As [William] Valentiner noted in his uncompleted memoirs Remembering Artists, [Diego] Rivera's [Detroit Industry] murals rooted the Detroit Institute of Arts to the many-faceted jewel of its central court because of the harmonious, fertile relationship between "the industrialist" and "the artist." Rivera remarked to Valentiner how especially struck he was that "Edsel had none of the characteristics of the exploiting capitalist, that he had the simplicity and directness of a workman in his won factories and was like one of the best of them." Their relationship was like the murals themselves, a superb expression of pluralism, toleration, and empathy for the other, and of a cosmopolitan sense of all the Americas, not just of the United States of America or Detroit alone. — John Dean

If I had the opportunity to speak to a young immigrant girl that just arrived to the U.S. the advice I would have for her would be: ask, speak, search; because there are opportunities out there. And, know that you aren't the only immigrant or the last to come to this country. Many that have come before you have succeeded. It is possible. — Jenni Rivera

Hell hath no fury like a drag queen scorned, — Sylvia Rivera

I'm telling you, God loves a lot of people. — Mariano Rivera

Going to regular public high school and working and auditioning was really, really tough. I never really fit in and hit the stride that all the other kids were on. Instead of going out and hanging out with my friends at that age, I remember being in my bedroom and putting on like a Christina Aguilera tape and just like belting. And seeing if I could hit every single note just like her. — Naya Rivera

Honestly, I never thought I'd actually be playing a teen lesbian. I didn't think it was going to go this far. But I'm glad that it did, because there have been a lot of fans who have expressed that they've been going through similar situations in their lives. — Naya Rivera

I love the theater because the theater is alive. The audience is right there. — Chita Rivera

As long as we don't cut off our hearts, the inner workings of the universe illuminate before us. — Rivera Sun

American audiences are affected by what the English people think. — Chita Rivera

This isn't about keeping mountains looking pretty. Ending mountaintop removal is about keeping humanity alive. — Rivera Sun