Spanish Quotes · Page 14

The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.

— Robert Kiyosaki

“Spanish was weird that way: two words for monkeys, and esposas meant both wives and handcuffs. That said a lot.”

— Ann Aguirre

My Spanish is coming along, I understand everything. I've been working on becoming more confident when speaking.

— Danny Garcia

“Why would you come to Italy to see Spanish steps? That's like going to China for Mexican food, isn't it?”

— Rick Riordan

Aw, come on. I barely speak English, unless we're talking about the Lowcountry kind.

— Kami Garcia

I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

You're Mexican until you make money and then you're Spanish.

— Lee Trevino

The English learned, in my view, how to use harmony much earlier than the French or the Italians, or the Germans.

— Tod Machover

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

— Aravind Adiga

People say we're all identical, but Jennifer Lopez is an American. She's from New York. She doesn't have an accent. Some of…

— Salma Hayek

My intention is not to be an American TV personality. My intention is not to be a Spanish TV personality. My intention…

— Hilaria Baldwin

I took an estimated two thousand years of high school French, and when I finally got to France, I discovered that I…

— Dave Barry

“An oft-quoted statistic from the [United Nations] reports is that the amount of literature translated into Spanish in a single year exceeds…

— The Economist

Being in southwest Detroit, when my dad would want to say anything about me or my brothers or sisters, he would start…

— Rashida Tlaib

To be honest, I couldn't hold a conversation with anybody in any language other than English - and that's a struggle sometimes!

— Phil Collins

'Marielena' was a wonderful experience that so many people still remember today. It challenged me to practice my Spanish. Having been born…

— Maria Canals Barrera

I think that in any family - black, white, Chinese, Spanish, whatever - family is family. You know that there's dysfunction, and…

— Lauren London

Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language... it is quite…

— Tom Wlaschiha

“I said, “Je parle français.” Indira gave me a weird look. Or a look that said I was weird. Whichever. The point…

— Tucker Elliot

“They jabbered amongst themselves in a bizarre jibberish that sounded like Spanish gone wrong: maybe gringo Spanglish, some kind of Espanahuatl that…

— Ernest Hogan

After the turmoil of the Second World War, my family ended up in Russian-occupied East Germany. When I attended fourth grade, I…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

On the morning of January 17, 1966, a real-life dirty bomb crisis occurred over Palomares, Spain. A Strategic Air Command bomber flying…

— Annie Jacobsen

Even when I speak English to my parents, I'll say an English word differently to my Chinese parents and friends than I…

— Jenny Zhang

“I’ve started dreaming in Spanish, which has never happened before. I wake up feeling different, like something inside me is changing, something…

— Cristina Garcia

I'm a good student. Just trying to learn as much as possible is how I picked up so many languages.

— Kristaps Porzingis

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

— Emma Bonino

I only speak English and gibberish and I'm fluent only in the gibberish.

— T Jay Taylor

Emily Blunt helped me study for a Spanish test, and I got an A+ on it!

— Lilla Crawford

The Spanish league is my favourite. The attacking mentality suits my style.

— Shinji Kagawa

If I had to learn Two words in spanish it would be Te Amo... because I will be willing to learn spanish…

— Anna R

I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.

— Karlie Kloss

In the case of the brujos, the sorcerers in Mexico, the Spanish Conquest forced them to develop their second attention.

— Frederick Lenz

It's strange that we don't see more English players going to the Spanish league.

— Santi Cazorla

“She needed to come with an instructional manual. And one not written in Spanish.”

— Kelly Moran

He said "cool" like I say a Spanish word when I'm not sure of the pronunciation.

— Kelley Armstrong

I start by using Chinese and many of the sounds of other languages are similar.

— Andy Lau

I throw my spanish in the air sometimes and say ayyyyooo no comprendoooo

— Sharon

“it was borne in upon me that I was standing in the awful presence of the Mother of the German Language.”

— Mark Twain

I don't speak any other languages, which I'm kind of ashamed about, actually.

— Jodie Comer

“Algunas veces uno tiene que elegir entre ser amable y honorable, –dijo. –A veces no se puede ser las dos.”

— Cassandra Clare