Alone Quote by George Grey

The situation was kind of complicated in that my mother didn't speak Spanish. My father spoke English, you know, as best he could.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

I barely speak Spanish.

— Matthew Heineman

“And, anyway, friendship is different in another language; a foreign friend doesn't have to understand what you feel, and I don't expect it. It's…

— Michael Chabon

I couldn't speak enough Spanish. I couldn't make myself understood on that club.

— Lefty Gomez

“When I spoke to her in Spanish I was not translating, I was not thinking my thoughts in English first, but I was nevertheless…

— Ben Lerner

“Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and apsirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry or…

— Nelson Mandela

I didn't grow up speaking Spanish, and the interesting thing was, we would watch these novelas and you didn't have to speak Spanish to…

— Eva Longoria

You know, I was a kid who had difficulty speaking English when I first immigrated. But in my head, when I read a book,…

— Junot Diaz

It was very difficult to leave Argentina when I was kid, so I only spoke Spanish for the first six years of my life.

— Anya Taylor-Joy

“His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

“She always says that americans can understand spaniards. That they are the only two western nations that can realize abstraction. That in americans it…

— Gertrude Stein