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
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
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
My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father's side. — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands… — Joseph C. Lincoln Copy Share Image
When I take my free-kicks, I think in Portuguese, and at most, I'll do the celebrating in my native tongue. — Andrea Pirlo Copy Share Image
When I think of Peter Wolf I always remember the Portuguese proverb: 'Never say you will not drink from that glass again.' — Faye Dunaway Copy Share Image
I'm half-Italian and my name is Portuguese. Michael Young is half-Mexican. There are players from the United States that have heritage elsewhere… — Mark Teixeira Copy Share Image
People of my generation in Portugal fell into the magic potion of political ideas. What was very funny about this revolution was… — Maria de Medeiros Copy Share Image
“Sou amigo da divisão do trabalho. Pessoas que não fazem nada devem fazer pessoas, enquanto as demais devem contribuir para a instrução… — Leo Tolstoy 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
You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don't say they are perfect, I say English football has a few things… — Jose Mourinho Copy Share Image
I have never said, as is sometimes believed, or even suggested that lower-class children should not learn the so-called educated norm of… — Paulo Freire 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
My parents are European immigrants. And I think as Europeans there are so many languages in close proximity that it's part of… — Stana Katic Copy Share Image
The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have conserved their racial purity by a lack of affinity with washing,… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
Portuguese is the language of my heart; it's the language of my feelings. It's the language that I feel I can express… — Jose Aldo Copy Share Image
PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We speak loud. And we speak with our hands, but we're not aggressive like warwise. A Portuguese is not going to punch… — Daniela Ruah Copy Share Image
If something is not right we give out about it. He is almost a Yorkshireman with a Portuguese accent. — Neil Warnock Copy Share Image
During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, "Remember men, you are… — Duke of Wellington Copy Share Image
I learned Portuguese, English and Spanish. It was great for me. My family always forced me to speak in every language. — Vicente Luque Copy Share Image
I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese… — Cristiano Ronaldo Copy Share Image
Tempura-style batters were originally brought to Japan by Portuguese missionaries in the 16th century. — J. Kenji Lopez-Alt Copy Share Image
At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the… — Gabriela Mistral 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 a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among… — William Bligh Copy Share Image
“There is reinforcement in such familiar back-formations as Chinee from Chinese, Portugee from Portuguese.” — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
My father is Portuguese, and in Portugal, it is traditional to take your mother's maiden name as a middle name. My mum… — Lucy Bronze Copy Share Image
From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now. — Francesca Annis 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
I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and… — Rashida Jones 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
We're very aggressive speakers. I remember when I was with one of my roommates in New York - and she's Portuguese, too… — Daniela Ruah 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
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
I keep boxes filled with recuerdos - little memories that are in the form of pictures and events that I've written down.… — Sonia Braga 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
I don't have any connection to Portuguese, but I listened to a lot of music in other languages because I was really… — Tucker Halpern Copy Share Image
