Quotes About Brazil

E' venuto scendendo il Rio Paracatè su una zattera di burití...

Sertão - si dice -, se uno lo va cercando non lo trova mai. Di colpo, di per sé, quando la gente non se l'aspetta, il sertão viene.

Aí me explicou: um senhor, no Palhão, na fazenda Nhanva, altas beiras do Jequitaí, para o ensino de todas as matérias estava encomendando um professor.

You can't hold a conversation in Brazil without jokes . . . you knowhow Brazilians are. Brazilians are women, booze, soccer, carnival, and dirty jokes.

You know the story about God creating the world and giving Brazil everything, and then the assistant angel says it's not fair, and then God says, wait till you see the bunch of bast– the bunch of rascals I'm going to give it for people.

He remained against Getúlio even after the 1937 coup.

Henry Ford famously chose to operate his own rubber plantation in Brazil in the late 1920s, a decision that did not turn out too well. Ultimately, choices like this, about how vertically integrated you want to be, are choices every company makes about "where to sit" in the value system.

I took over a Brazil in the midst of a profound ethical, moral, and economic crisis. We are committed to changing our history... We want to govern by example.

Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.

My father always said that Brazil is the place to 'make America,' and by 'make America' he meant the place to grow - to prosper.

We must always give preference to the collective. We have to play as Brazil. Nobody is a lone protagonist.

I think my dad is the proudest of anyone that I made my debut for Brazil.

Getúlio] Vargas decide que os prejuízos decorrentes de agressões praticadas por países do Eixo contra bens do Estado Brasileiro seriam cobertos pelos depósitos bancários dos imigrantes residentes no Brasil, pessoas fisicas ou juridicas (...)

A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.

I started very young... I learned my martial arts first in the street. There were always fights. That's the culture in Brazil.

All of these fights I've won, the pressure has been on me to go out there and get the win. I have to beat this guy and that guy, or I'm fighting in Brazil.

In Brazil, the history of the interaction between blancos and indios - whites and Indians - often reads like an extended epitaph. Tribes were wiped out by disease and massacres; languages and songs were obliterated.

I am absolutely sure that whoever comes to Brazil will be mesmerized with the country.

I think the Brazil system is similar to the one we use at Liverpool, with lots of movement, players open out wide, and quality midfielders who join the attack and score goals.

Of course, I follow Bollywood. In fact, it's widely followed in Brazil.

I love dancing and practiced ballet for ten years until I realized I wouldn't make it professionally - then I started taking salsa classes. I learned to dance samba in Rio and Salvador when I lived in Brazil.

I went to play in Brazil when I had just turned 18 and was the world's top junior player. I got to the airport, and no one knew who I was. I couldn't speak any Portuguese, and no one spoke English. Then someone said something that resembled 'tennis,' and I went with that.

The only country where you see any positive movement within domestic consumption is Brazil, where you really do have a variety of coffees to make blends with.

Los infrasoles (Drummond diría los alegres muchachos proletarios).