Spanish Quotes

• I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United States and France, but between those who want to move forward in the logic of war and the international community.

  

  Dominique de Villepin
  • Friends
  • American
  • War

• I sang everything - R&B slow jams, Spanish slow jams, romantic reggaeton - and I really didn't care which I got signed for.

  

  Prince Royce
  • Romantic
  • Spanish

• I grew up in The Bronx. I mean, I was born and raised in New York City. And I started singing in Spanish because I was always just connected to my Latin roots.

  

  Prince Royce
  • Up
  • City
  • Singing

• But there is that about well-intentioned advice that has the opposite effect of the one intended, and causes a Spanish fly of perversity to enter into the hitherto passive soul.

  

  Caitlin Thomas
  • Soul
  • Advice
  • Fly

• The language in New Mexico is very different. At first when you hear the speech here, you don't really know what to do with it, but then I just went with it, because as a writer as well as a translator I do believe that translated words are not different names for the same thing. They're different names for different things. I tried to stay as true as I could, so I used Ruben Cobos' dictionary of Southwestern Spanish, and when I went into Spanish I never assumed the word I would use would be the word a nuevomexicano would use.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • Believe
  • Different
  • True

• A taste for the best reading is not cultivated in Spanish girls, even where the treasures of that great Castilian literature are accessible to them.

  

  Katharine Lee Bates
  • Great
  • Reading
  • Literature

• We were doing the same thing. We will never have "a" Chicano English or Spanish because of regional differences. But I think that because of our bilingual history, we'll always be speaking a special kind of English and Spanish. What we do have to do is fight for the right to use those two languages in the way that it serves us. Nuevo-mexicanos have done it very well for hundreds of years, inventing words where they don't have them. I think the future of our language is where we claim our bilingualism for its utility.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • History

• In early 2010, we launched our first localized version of 'WhatsApp' for iPhone. It included Spanish and German language translations, to name a couple.

  

  Brian Acton
  • Couple
  • German
  • Spanish

• I think the reason why a lot of the Spanish films do so well, and are so well done, is because the public really respects it and wants it.

  

  Paula Garces
  • Done
  • Why
  • Spanish

• I grew up in a highly Hispanic neighborhood. It was very rare to find any race other than Mexicans. I feel very comfortable around Spanish speakers and people from Mexico and people who don't always feel comfortable living in the U.S. because they are in fear of being deported.

  

  Emily Rios
  • People
  • Up
  • Fear

• First my mother was Spanish. Then she became a Jehovahs Witness.

  

  Geri Halliwell Spice Girls
  • First
  • Spanish
  • My Mother

• The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish.

  

  George Benson
  • World
  • Today
  • Player

• I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in English.

  

  Chi Chi Rodriguez
  • English
  • Spanish

• I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.

  

  Dave Barry
  • American
  • War
  • Spanish

• Hello? Three words: Benicio Del Toro, which, incidentally, is Spanish for 'he wants me.' It is just ridiculous how hot he is. I feel the same way about Benicio as I did when I was a kid lusting after David Cassidy.

  

  Caroline Rhea
  • Words
  • Spanish

• I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Trying
  • Feeling
  • Energy

• I grew up, and my body was not like a Spanish player. I was tall. I had a powerful game; my arms were long, so I'm like, 'No, you can't play like Spanish players.'

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • Up
  • Long
  • Game

• At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.

  

  Gabriela Mistral
  • Voice
  • Moment
  • Portuguese

• I would love to adopt a child from a Spanish speaking country, because I want to have Spanish in the home.

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • Country
  • Love
  • Home

• Nobody can doubt Puerto Rico, sociologically, linguistically, culturally, and historically, is a nation. We have our own rich culture, thousand years of history, unique territory, and almost everyone's first language is Spanish, not English.

  

  Anibal Acevedo Vila
  • History
  • Culture
  • English

• President Bush gave his first-ever presidential radio address in both English and Spanish. Reaction was mixed, however, as people were trying to figure out which one was which.

  

  Dennis Miller
  • People
  • Trying
  • English

• It was very difficult to leave Argentina when I was kid, so I only spoke Spanish for the first six years of my life.

  

  Anya Taylor-Joy
  • Life
  • Spanish

• I picked up the Puerto Rican accent from my father, and my sister picked up my mother's very clear, concise, and slow Mexican-Spanish. So, when she does speak, she speaks with diction. She pronounces every word.

  

  Alanna Ubach
  • Up
  • She
  • Mother

• During the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in the 16th century, the Catholic Church's Friar Diego de Landa supervised the burning of hundreds of Maya codices - fig-bark books rich in mythological and astronomical information. Only four Maya codices are known to have survived.

  

  David Roberts
  • Church
  • Catholic
  • Spanish

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