Quotes About Portuguese

My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner and play Portuguese folk songs on it. I couldn't wait for him to finish so I could get my hands on it. I was seven or eight years old. And he used to have a Fender amp in his house and an electric guitar. I would spend hours making sounds.

No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese.

This is a den of the worst kind of slave-traders; those whom I met in Urungu and Itawa were gentlemen slavers: the Ujiji slavers, like the Kilwa and Portuguese, are the vilest of the vile. It is not a trade, but a system of consecutive murders; they go to plunder and kidnap, and every trading trip is nothing but a foray.

Street performances?""A little singing. A little martial arts. Some interpretive dance.""Wow.""I know! The Portuguese have taste.

I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join Manchester United.

To acknowledge that the biggest wave in the world might be a shore break off a little Portuguese town no one has ever heard of flies in the face of what passes for reason in the surf world.

So, Spinoza went off, not as a victim or a pariah but as an independent Portuguese person living in Amsterdam. In so doing, he became one of the first people to live outside of any religious affiliation.

Which is weird for a Portuguese. The Portuguese like big balls, fat, and car catalogs.

The overall structure of the Portuguese trading networks was made of numerous individual networks, each organized around a merchant house, whose activities were limited to a set of markets within a circumscribed area of the Atlantic. Each of these smaller networks overlapped with its neighbors, one network fusing into another across the full expanse of the European overseas economy.

The Castilian officials had legitimate grounds for concern about the possible actions of a Portuguese fifth column. As early as May 1641, Portuguese warships leagued with the English and began to press against the Spanish possessions in the Caribbean and along the Pacific coast.4 In

El nombre de Brasil llegaría más tarde, en el siglo XVI, cuando los primeros colonos empezaron a exportar un árbol que usaban los indígenas para extraer sus tintes y pintarse de aquella manera que tanto fascinó al oficial portugués, y que llamaron pau-brasil, por desprender un color rojizo al hervirse en el agua, lo que sugería las llamas de un fuego o las brasas del carbón ardiendo. De Terra do pau-brasil acabaría abreviándose a Brasil.

Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.

We know about Portuguese football, we know the Portuguese culture.

The connections are very important with the fans, with the journalists, with the people. The Portuguese like to do this - it's a characteristic.

I'm going to be a very bad Portuguese right now - I'm actually not a fan of pastel de natas. I'm just not a fan of cream.

'Conexao,' which means 'connection' in Portuguese, is about exploring the more nuanced highs and lows of romance.

I don't have any connection to Portuguese, but I listened to a lot of music in other languages because I was really into house music; there are all sorts of languages that are featured in house.

Portugal have a mix of players and talent, which is what Portuguese players and coaches are often about. It's like play-ground football.

I am like all Portuguese people in that I admire Mourinho a lot.

Tempura-style batters were originally brought to Japan by Portuguese missionaries in the 16th century.

I watched the Portuguese TV anchors talking about what was happening all over the world and I just thought they were so knowledgeable and the most interesting and incredible people in the world.

Portuguese is the language of my heart; it's the language of my feelings. It's the language that I feel I can express myself best in.

I looked at Manchester with more interest when Cristiano was here because it's normal when you have Portuguese players in some teams, you look at them more than other teams.

i smile. things taken for granted have a way of catching you offguard when you least expect it, and then you're taken by what the portuguese calls saudade, a sense of longing for something, someone not there anymore.