Spanish Quotes · Page 10

When you are Spanish girl, you got to grow up in a convent if you want to get married.

— Charo

Actually, between Colombian and Mexican Spanish, there's not a huge difference, but it is a different accent.

— Natalia Reyes

I wasn't aware that 'House on Mango Street' was so influenced by Spanish until after I finished.

— Sandra Cisneros

I always wanna be French. That's been since I was a kid. My name used to be Chloette when I was in…

— Chloe Fineman

“A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish, by John Butt and Carmen Benjamin.”

— John Del Gaudio

“No hay memoria a quien el tiempo no acabe, ni dolor que muerte no le consuma.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.

— Jet Li

If I speak my version of Spanish in Spain, they laugh. Same with Mexico. It's an alien world to me.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

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

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

— Hilaria Baldwin

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

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

— Aravind Adiga

Now I’m really glad that I speak French, because, let’s face it, girls dig it when a guy speaks French. They call…

— Justin Bieber

I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless…

— Madeline Zima

As a boy, when I was bad, my mother would chew me out in Spanish. And since I was bad a lot,…

— John Sununu

I don't know what it is about the french language, it seems to be scared of coming out of the mouth so…

— P.D.Q. Bach

“—¿Qué? El hecho de que no puedo tenerte ahora mismo, no significa que estoy bien con que él te tenga. Mi cerebro…

— Cora Carmack

“pro scienta atque sapienta-Latin- for science and wisdom It's a Darwinian popularity contest. at all times, the question on everyone's mind is,…

— Ned Vizzini

I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German,…

— Samantha Power

In my 30s, I wrote in the back house of a ramshackle Spanish Revival we rented across from the ocean in the…

— Mona Simpson

“He agreed that I should buy another dictionary or, better yet, a phrase book with standard Spanish expressions. He also suggested that…

— Henri Charrière

When I hear you speak spanish to me it makes me have the butterflies and when I see you I get lost…

— Mee

I had the advantage, that I know Swedish. So I had the Swedish book and I had a lot of English translations,…

— Liv Ullmann

I am 100% proud Puerto Rican but have lived two-thirds of my life in the United States. So, there will be some…

— Luis Fonsi

“But I don't know how to speak the language of impossible dreams en français.”

— Sarah Ockler

I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.

— Ian Frazier

Absolutely everything that has been reported about me in Spanish media is wrong.

— Martin Odegaard

When I was a girl, there wasn't anything in Spanish in the movies until you saw it on DVD.

— Eiza Gonzalez

The Spanish love their paella, and they love their jamon. And they love their football.

— Jason Clarke

I make the best Spanish omelettes in the world, but I won't tell you the recipe!

— Hrithik Roshan

French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.

— Ernest Hemingway

I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.

— Mark Twain

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

— Rick Riordan

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

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Lee Trevino

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

— Danny Garcia

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

— Tod Machover

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

— Emma Bonino

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

— Kristaps Porzingis