I speak English, Portuguese, and French. One day I'd love…

When I was invited to sing with Pavarotti, I had about two weeks to learn Italian.

— Michael Bolton

“As we hoped, our kids began to learn Italian. One day Isaac sat down to dinner, looked at the plate of pasta we’d prepared,…

— Douglas Preston

I speak Italian and a little bit of French. I moved to Trento, Italy, when I was around 10 to learn Italian. I have…

— Eiza Gonzalez

I have Italian heritage, so I'm keen to go over for a few months with the girls and soak up the culture and the…

— Tamzin Outhwaite

When I took part in European leaders summits, it was sometimes unpleasant for me to hear Romanian, Polish, Portuguese, and Italian friends speak English,…

— Francois Hollande

When I lived in the U.S., I spoke Portuguese with my mother and grandmother, Spanish with my father and his family, and English with…

— Vicente Luque

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

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

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

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

— Mary McCarthy