Spain Quotes
275 Spain quotes by 208 unique authors
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In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.
— Larry Elder
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Mum doesn't like it when I mention that Dad's a better cook than her. He was born in Spain and spent eight years in Portugal…
— Paloma Faith
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When I was living in Los Angeles, I always booked a moisturizing milk-and-honey massage the day before flying to Spain. It was heaven - I…
— Carolina Herrera
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If you come from Spain, you have to play football.
— Enrique Iglesias
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
— Erica Jong
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It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music.
— Lenny Kravitz
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You go to a restaurant in the States and kids have these game boards at the table. You don't see that in Italy or Spain.…
— Emeril Lagasse
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Barcelona are my favourite team in Spain, let's put it that way.
— Frank Lampard
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Clive Dunn, as I understand it, retired to the south of Spain, where he worked extensively in watercolours. I don't own any of Clive Dunn's…
— Hugh Laurie
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I absolutely would not have liked playing in Spain or somewhere like that, so I was just gonna do it a year. Then I was…
— Jeremy Lin
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In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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When you want to make it clear to the rest of the world that you are not an imperialist, the best countries to have with…
— Bill Maher
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The Philippines is a terrible name, coming from Spain. Phillip II was the father of the inquisition, who I believe died of syphilis. It is…
— Imelda Marcos
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When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they…
— Viggo Mortensen
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Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the…
— Viggo Mortensen
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Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain…
— Nathan Myhrvold
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I live where I would like to live. I live in Majorca, Spain, and I am not sure there are better places.
— Rafael Nadal
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I like a lot of sports. Especially football - it's my favourite sport. My uncle played football in Barcelona for nine years and played for…
— Rafael Nadal
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Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.
— Paul Prudhomme
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To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.
— Carroll Quigley
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People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come…
— Cristiano Ronaldo
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Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and…
— Jon Stewart
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In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare…
— Lytton Strachey
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It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are…
— Albert Camus
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Like Spain, I am bound to the past.
— William S. Burroughs
Who Wrote These Spain Quotes
208 authors contributed a total of 275 Spain Quotes, led by these top contributors: