Quotes and Sayings About Spain

I am quite sure that very few of the so-called Reds in Spain were really Communists. We were badly deceived, for, had I known the real state of affairs, I would never have allowed our aircraft to bombard and destroy a starving population and at the same time re-establish the Spanish clergy in all their horrible privileges. (10th February 1945)
-- Adolf Hitler

#Real #Spain #Population

I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Weather #Spain #Influence

Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn't know how I was going to pay the rent.
-- Antonio Banderas

#Years #Spain #Pay

Here in Spain, there are Argentine Jews, children and grandchildren of immigrants of Jews who fled Germany or Austria in the thirties, and in the seventies during the dictatorship, they had to go into exile again.
-- Antonio Munoz Molina

#Children #Spain #Germany

The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.
-- Barry Eichengreen

#Country #Wrath #Spain

If you'd be wealthy, think of saving, more than of getting: The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her Outgoes equal her Incomes.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Thinking #Spain #Income

Superciliousness is not safe after all, because a person who forms the habit of wearing it may some day find his lower lip grown permanently projected beyond the upper, so that he can't get it back, and must go through life looking like the King of Spain.
-- Booth Tarkington

#Kings #Book #Spain

Immigrants in Norway must learn Norwegian. The same should Spaniards in Spain do, if they want to work with Norwegians.
-- Carl I. Hagen

#Spain #Want #Norway

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.
-- Carroll Quigley

#Southern #Spain #Individualism

The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.
-- Carroll Quigley

#Failure #Spain #West

I've done quite a few adverts. I've also done some presenting and acting work in Spain. I did a lot of Spanish education videos for people wanting to learn English.
-- Christopher Parker

#People #Acting #Spain

Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer, dead at 53. Over Barcelona today, the famed reindeer was hit by a flock of seagulls and a 747. Eyewitnesses report, that the reindeer in Spain was hit mainly by the plane.
-- Colin Mochrie

#Spain #Reindeer #Red

I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey.
-- Daisy Fuentes

#Spain #Cuba #Madrid

My favourite setting are England, because I was born here and love it, and Spain, because it's fabulous and so romantic.
-- Diana Hamilton

#And Love #Spain #Fabulous

Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare's kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings.
-- Doris Kearns Goodwin

#Kings #Europe #Spain

The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain
-- Eliza Doolittle

#Rain #Spain

Spain- a great whale stranded on the shores of Europe.
-- Elizabeth Oakes Smith

#Europe #Whales #Spain

If you come from Spain, you have to play football.
-- Enrique Iglesias

#Football #Play #Spain

We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.
-- Federica Montseny

#People #Feelings #Spain

Never will the Anarchists in Spain be made to suffer as they have been and are in Russia.
-- Federica Montseny

#Russia #Suffering #Spain

In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.
-- Federica Montseny

#Responsibility #Spain #Would Be

Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.
-- Federica Montseny

#Years #Democracy #Spain

In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
-- Federico Garcia Lorca

#Country #Spain #Alive

In Spain there were no TV rights for Formula One.
-- Fernando Alonso

#Rights #Tvs #Spain

In the middle of the sixteenth century, Spain was the incubus of Europe. Gloomy and portentous, she chilled the world with her baneful shadow.
-- Francis Parkman

#Europe #Shadow #Spain

Barcelona are my favourite team in Spain, let's put it that way.
-- Frank Lampard

#Team #Spain #Way

I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!
-- George Orwell

#Country #Spain #Easy

If we were the problem, it would be very convenient - kick Greece out, everything's fine. What would happen to Spain, what about Portugal, what about Italy, what about the whole of the euro zone? We need more cooperation and less simplification and prejudice.
-- George Papandreou

#Spain #Prejudice #Would Be

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels
-- Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#Book #United States #Spain

All of the American's foreign wars have been fought with foes either too weak to resist them or too heavily engaged elsewhere to make more than a half-hearted attempt. The combats with Mexico and Spain were not wars; they were simply lynchings.
-- H. L. Mencken

#War #Lynching #Spain