The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a…

“It's a peculiar kind of dissatisfaction, a bittersweet nostalgia for a moment not yet past.”

— Christina Baker Kline

It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of…

— Hunter S. Thompson

It's part of my DNA as a Portuguese. Like many of my ancestors, there's that need to discover the world - exploration is in…

— Mariana van Zeller

“A long time ago I lived in Lisbon,' she said, in softly slurred Portuguese that made the name of the city Leesh-boa. 'But before…

— Henry Kuttner

I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking Portuguese. I…

— Sebastian Arcelus

“Fortunately she stopped the servants before the platters of cold meats left the house, sending them back to the kitchen where she had the…

— Anonymous

Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were his first Portuguese words in the real world and they worked. That words could cause…

— Pascal Mercier

Any sizeable Portuguese town looks like a superstitious bride's finery - something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.

— Mary McCarthy

I'm English. I've never said the opposite. I'm 100 per cent English. In Portugal it happens that a lot of Brazilians play for Portugal…

— Eric Dier

My father is Portuguese, and in Portugal, it is traditional to take your mother's maiden name as a middle name. My mum is called…

— Lucy Bronze

I've come to find that I do think it is actually healthy for our relationship that I don't speak that much Portuguese because she…

— Matthew McConaughey

Hispanics speak Spanish or Portuguese, which are languages we Americans are familiar with, so it doesn't seem to pose the same types of problems…

— Samuel P. Huntington

“Dorme, dorme, meu menino Dorme no Mar dos Sargaços Que mais vale o mar a pino Que as serpentes nos meus braços.”

— Anonymous

“Portuguese cake-making”

— Lizzie Collingham

I don't have any connection to Portuguese, but I listened to a lot of music in other languages because I was really into house…

— Tucker Halpern