Portuguese Quotes
48 quotes by 39 authors
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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
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I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of…
— Rashida Jones
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The research carried out in the area of language technology is of utmost importance for the consolidation of Portuguese as a language of global communication…
— Pedro Passos Coelho
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The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.
— Fernando Pessoa
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The Arabs understandably did everything they could to protect their monopoly. Coffee beans were treated before being shipped to ensure they were sterile and could…
— Tom Standage
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My homeland is the portuguese language.
— Fernando Pessoa
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Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.
— Nelly Furtado
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The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing, have…
— Che Guevara
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The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have conserved their racial purity by a lack of affinity with washing, have seen their…
— Che Guevara
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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 and it's a…
— Mark Teixeira
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Romania are more Portuguese than German.
— Barry Venison
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She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese,…
— Jodi Picoult
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Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and German.
— Clarence Nash
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I speak English, Portuguese, and French. One day I'd love to learn Italian.
— Izabel Goulart
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But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese…
— Joseph C. Lincoln
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My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the…
— Joseph C. Lincoln
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There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and…
— William Bligh
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Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese.
— Emeril Lagasse
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I have never said, as is sometimes believed, or even suggested that lower-class children should not learn the so-called educated norm of the Portuguese language…
— Paulo Freire
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At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of well-educated Mozambicans to…
— Henning Mankell
Who Wrote These Portuguese Quotes
39 authors contributed a total of 48 Portuguese Quotes, led by these top contributors: