Spanish Quotes
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U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things.
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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.
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When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology.
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I'm trying to work on my Spanish.
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It was very difficult to leave Argentina when I was kid, so I only spoke Spanish for the first six years of my life.
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I played the Spanish guitar for eight years, like flamenco.
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Acapulco, Mexico: '...queer, dirty little dago town....The people are too revolting for words, super dagoes & some of them are quite black as a result of Spaniards inter-breeding with the Indians; & of course they only speak Spanish' (9 September 1920)
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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.
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Spanish Explorers celebrated Christmas in 1539 in the area we now know as the State of Florida.
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No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!
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«Some aspects of the Spanish economy are going well, ... but it is not because you govern ... What has been your main virtue as a ruler? Not ruining the economy, and therefore I applaud. He could have razed everything he found, ... but no, he had the right to leave the economy as it was before.»
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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.
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I spoke English at school and Spanish at home, and I'm always eating Dominican food, listening to Dominican music.
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When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing.
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I'm a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, who made Argentina.
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I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.
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I would always talk with my friends in English and Spanglish, but it was more like slang. It was more like, 'Yo, what's up, dog?' But in Spanish, I know what's proper, and what's ghetto. I know the difference.
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I think my biggest fear is trying to communicate in Spanish with someone I don't know and them laughing at me or thinking it's awful, but for the most part, people I've encountered just see that I'm trying, and they're helpful. It's helpful to me to communicate with people.
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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.
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O’Hara was in his most non-stop way of talking, saying that the pictures put him in mind of Tiepolo Spanish wall-painter, c. 1750. Certain cupola frescoes. Suddenly I was working in an ancient building, a warehouse facing the Giudecca. The loft over the firehouse was transformed. It was filled with light reflected from the canal. quote in 1955
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I do voices. I can sound like a man or cartoon character. I also have very believable Spanish and English accents.
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Camila Cabello did an amazing job with 'Havana.' It's Spanish, but it's English.
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That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.
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The way I think or sing about something is very different if it is in Spanish or English.
