Any sizeable Portuguese town looks like a superstitious bride's finery - something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Dorme, dorme, meu menino Dorme no Mar dos Sargaços Que mais vale o mar a pino Que as serpentes nos meus braços.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hispanics speak Spanish or Portuguese, which are languages we Americans are familiar with, so it doesn't seem to pose the same types… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were his first Portuguese words in the real world and they worked. That words… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“Fortunately she stopped the servants before the platters of cold meats left the house, sending them back to the kitchen where she… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking… — Sebastian Arcelus Copy Share Image
The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well. — Nelly Furtado Copy Share Image
My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the… — Joseph C. Lincoln Copy Share Image
Some of the very heroic and colourful figures in our history are sons of Sabaragamuwa - Parakramabahu I, born in Dedigama, the… — Dominicus Corea Copy Share Image
At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
We discovered this halfway through the process. When we started making the film there were some lines of dialogue in Portuguese, but… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
The Portuguese, Dutch and English have been for a long time year after year, shipping home the treasures of India in their… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“Tijolos que pisei e repisei naquela tarde, colunas amareladas que me passastes à direita ou à esquerda, segundo eu ia ou vinha,… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
Knowing English is important, but for us Venezuelans I think it would also be important to know Portuguese. For that reason, we… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and German. — Clarence Nash Copy Share Image
“There is reinforcement in such familiar back-formations as Chinee from Chinese, Portugee from Portuguese.” — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I'm old enough to remember the days when you spoke to one person from one outlet and that was the conversation. But… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
These were African-Arab-Asian values. The only section of Europe that had a high value system during the Dark Ages was the, were… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Luke rose to his feet. "I'm taking five minutes for some air. I'll be back. " He felt them watching him as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
