Selenis Leyva Quotes

My grandmother was this amazing woman in the Dominican Republic who used to read tea leaves and palms. She would cure people in her neighborhood by going into her garden, plucking a couple of leaves, and brewing teas.

Selenis Leyva

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: cuban
  • Birth: May 26, 1972

Topics

WomanTeaPeopleAmazingGardenShe

I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili.

Joely Fisher

LoveChiliCookMakeTurkeyI Love

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Maya Angelou

WorkLoveHopeCourageGreatLaugh

It was 1988, and I was just finishing a D.Phil at Oxford University on the topic of 'Nietzsche and German Idealism.'

Matthew Stewart

FinishingUniversityJustIdealism

I can never consent to being dictated to.

John Tyler

I CanNeverConsentBeingDictated

But I don't want to be out there anymore; I don't want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose.

Toni Braxton

GirlHealthPurposePeopleMeWant

I did a salad, but I didn't do a garden.

Roberto Burle Marx

GardenSaladDid

You always regret upsetting people needlessly.

Mary Beard

PeopleRegretYouAlwaysUpsetting

The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.

Mary Kay Blakely

KnowledgeMeYearsInspiredMagical

Many fans don't have the leisure time to track my every word. They're too busy brainstorming solutions to the economic crisis and winning Pulitzers.

Michael Showalter

TimeWinningBusyCrisisFansTrack

To join Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys was like throwing a baseball around in your front yard and somebody coming over and signing you to play for the New York Yankees.

Johnny Gimble

BaseballNew YorkTexasYouPlay

I grew up in New York City, and both my parents worked. On weekends, we'd go out to the country, and on Sunday nights we'd come back. Sometimes we were a little cranky - it was a long drive. But we could always look forward to one thing: my mother's ziti and meat sauce.

Christa Miller

MotherNew YorkParentsCityDrive

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

Conor McGregor

FearWayDifferentDifferent Way

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