Spanish Quotes

• In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard as one would speak of a brave anarchist. The Arabian epoch-the Arabs look down on the Turks as they do on dogs-was the most cultured, the most intellectual and in every way best and happiest epoch in Spanish history. It was followed by the period of the persecutions with its unceasing atrocities.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • People
  • Mixture
  • Gothic

• In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

  

  Jose Bergamin
  • Literature
  • Spanish

• The moon came white and ghostly as we laid the treasure down,There was gear there’d make a beggarman as rich as Lima Town,Copper charms and silver trinkets from the chests of Spanish crews,Gold doubloons and double moidores, louis d’ors and portagues

  

  John Masefield
  • Gold
  • Moon
  • Spanish

• 'My mother taught me a Spanish saying,' he remarked, 'that it takes four men to make a salad: a spendthrift for the oil, a philosopher for the seasonings, a miser for the vinegar, and a madman for the tossing.'

  

  Poul Anderson
  • Men
  • Mother
  • Spanish

• The second assault on Fallujah was a monument to brutality and atrocity made in the United States of America. Like the Spanish city of Guernica during the 1930s, and Grozny in the 1990s Fallujah is our monument of excess and overkill.

  

  Dahr Jamail
  • America
  • City
  • Spanish

• My dad looked like Errol Flynn, and I think my mom thought she was moving into a hacienda, but they lived on a dirt street in Tijuana, a house jammed with relatives, nobody speaking English. She didn't know a word of Spanish. She grew up well and was appalled and humiliated, terrified of anyone ethnic.

  

  Luis Alberto Urrea
  • Up
  • She
  • House

• It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• My grandparents were from Spain, and I had a Spanish passport.

  

  Ana de Armas
  • Spanish
  • Grandparents

• I always play with long sleeves because Beckham always did it. He is my idol. He had a lot of class both on the pitch and outside. Nobody had his right foot. I would love to speak with him, but in Spanish because I don't speak English.

  

  Antoine Griezmann
  • Long
  • English
  • Spanish

• My name means 'hope' in Spanish and it's a name I want to live up to.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Hope
  • My Name
  • Live Up

• I get better coverage on my Spanish stations than I do on my English stations.

  

  Gene Green
  • English
  • Spanish

• Violet speaks Spanish and understands it. She loves Cuban food! My mom is very good at teaching her about our culture, whether it be the food or Spanish or explaining to her that she's Cuban.

  

  Christine Flores
  • Good
  • She
  • Culture

• My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and in school they work with you only in English. But I'm proud to be Latina, and most people don't know I am.

  

  Bella Thorne
  • People
  • Work
  • School

• As a boy, when I was bad, my mother would chew me out in Spanish. And since I was bad a lot, I learned a lot of Spanish!

  

  John Sununu
  • Bad
  • Mother
  • Boy

• The problem is that I work in more than one genre. It's impossible for me to aim for a single one because, for me, comedy is mixed with tragedy. That's very Spanish, the way in which comedy and tragedy are inextricable from each other.

  

  Pedro Almodovar
  • Work
  • Single
  • Comedy

• The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters.

  

  Donna Leon
  • Kiss
  • Spanish

• We are a very typical Spanish family - a bullfighter, an actress, a flamenco dancer and singer!

  

  Paz Vega
  • Family
  • Spanish

• I haven't heard them n.d.r. he's talking about some Spanish popular folk songs and probably never shall because I no longer go to the places where one could hear them, for I have got into my head that I should maintain a certain presence and air for dignity.. ..that a man should have, and you can imagine that I'm not very happy about it.

  

  Francisco Goya
  • Happy
  • Air
  • Popular

• I realized how Latina I was, and then also, at the same time, how not Latina enough I was, because I'm born and raised in Los Angeles. I speak Spanish, but I don't speak perfect Spanish, not like a native speaker.

  

  America Ferrera
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Spanish

• 'During my next visit with you, fellow-believers,' he said, 'I shall tell you a parable about people who do things that they think God Almighty wants done. In the meanwhile, you would do well, for background on this parable, to read everything that you can lay your hands on about the Spanish Inquisition.'

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • People
  • God
  • Done

• I grew up having two different perspectives - one in English, one in Spanish. Two different cultures, very different - but I think that, to me, it's one. I'm just as American as I feel Latin.

  

  Prince Royce
  • Up
  • Different
  • American

• I've always wanted to be able to say that I come from Los Angeles, California and feel quintessentially American - even if I said that in Spanish.

  

  Cheech Marin
  • American
  • California
  • Spanish

• People always ask me: 'Do you have black in you? Do you have Spanish in you?'

  

  Rita Ora
  • People
  • Black
  • Spanish

• I went to live in Barcelona in 1975, when I was twenty. Even before I went there, I knew more about the Spanish Civil War than I did about the Irish Civil War. I liked Barcelona, and then I grew to like a place in the Catalan Pyrenees called the Pillars, especially an area between the village of Flavors and the high mountains around it.

  

  Colm Toibin
  • Live
  • War
  • High

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