Quotes and Sayings About Spain
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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 -
I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.
-- Alexei Sayle -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Immigrants in Norway must learn Norwegian. The same should Spaniards in Spain do, if they want to work with Norwegians.
-- Carl I. Hagen -
To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.
-- Carroll Quigley -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey.
-- Daisy Fuentes -
My favourite setting are England, because I was born here and love it, and Spain, because it's fabulous and so romantic.
-- Diana Hamilton -
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 -
The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain
-- Eliza Doolittle -
Spain- a great whale stranded on the shores of Europe.
-- Elizabeth Oakes Smith -
If you come from Spain, you have to play football.
-- Enrique Iglesias -
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 -
Never will the Anarchists in Spain be made to suffer as they have been and are in Russia.
-- Federica Montseny -
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 -
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 -
In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
-- Federico Garcia Lorca -
In Spain there were no TV rights for Formula One.
-- Fernando Alonso -
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 -
Barcelona are my favourite team in Spain, let's put it that way.
-- Frank Lampard -
I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!
-- George Orwell -
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 -
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 -
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
