Quotes About Brazil

This map by cartographer Herman Moll was commissioned by the South Sea Company. The entire region displayed, with the exception of Brazil, was claimed as the company's trading territory. Disregarded was the fact that Spain claimed the same territory.

In Brazil there are more Avon ladies than members of the army. In the United States more money is spent on beauty than on education or social services.

In 1891 the Brazilian Minister of Finance decreed the abolition of history; he ordered the destruction of every document which dealt in any way with slavery or the slave trade; a nation-wide burning of the books.

I do go back to Brazil once a year. I miss my family.

The first World Cup I remember was in the 1950 when I was 9 or 10 years old. My father was a soccer player, and there was a big party, and when Brazil lost to Uruguay, I saw my father crying.

I see the future of Brazil as the future of the planet.

It's scoring goals that's great, whether against Brazil or anybody else.

BRICS nations—a widely used acronym referring to the developing countries of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa—are often treated as indistinguishable, but nothing could be further from reality.

Ice-cold temperatures typically kill whatever minimal flavor beer has to begin with, which in the case of both Brazil and the United States, indicates that residents in both countries are averse to strong bitter flavors.

El biólogo E. O. Wilson escribió que Colombia debería contarse como «uno de los países de la megadiversidad de la Tierra, con una fauna y una flora cuya riqueza solo es comparable a la de Brasil».

From the early 1900s coffee, a drink for every day, became a commonplace and Japanese beverage. The expansion of the world's coffee industries, I will argue, was in its early days closely related to the rise of coffee drinking in Japan. Japanese coffee workers in Brazil, in concert with the aspirations of the Brazilian coffee industries, made Japan a world-beating destination for beans and taste.

Os desafios são maiores que a esperança? Mas nós não podemos senão ser optimistas e fazer aquilo que os brasileiros chamam de levantar, sacudir a poeira e dar a volta por cima. O pessimismo é um luxo para os ricos.

Amazingly, compared to the control group who ate no nuts at all, just a single serving of four Brazil nuts almost immediately improved cholesterol levels. LDL—the "bad"—cholesterol levels were a staggering twenty points lower just nine hours after eating the Brazil nuts.51 Even drugs don't work nearly that fast.52

Although Brazil never practised the racial segregation that marred the United States or South Africa, many of the poor in today's Brazil are of darker skin than the better-off.

Porque o mineiro só é solidário no câncer. Mamãe, o mineiro só é solidário no câncer. d. ivete (furiosa) Ã¢â'¬â€ Não repete! (Edgard recua diante da mãe, com cheque numa mão e o isqueiro aceso, na outra.) edgard — O mineiro só é solidário no câncer! d. ivete (como uma louca) Ã¢â'¬â€ Chega! Chega! (A velha tapa os ouvidos.) edgard

Két halott feküdt a brazil januárban, már rég szerettem volna írást így kezdeni, és ez kétségkívül ütÅ'sebb auftakt, mint az, hogy egy Esti Kornél ült a járdaszélen a pécsi júliusban.

Trials of a person I didn't know lost in a labyrinth of aisles formed by the immense filing cabinets of Brazil - the movie, not the country.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.