Quotes About Seville

People in Seville are very happy, the lifestyle here is very relaxed, you can walk everywhere; it's very easy.

Once, while exploring Seville Cathedral, I walked into a metal bar and gashed my head.

Thanks be to God, the air is soft as in April in Seville, and it is a pleasure to be in it, so fragrant it is.

But her relationship with food was all about being Carmen of Seville. It was her truth, her statement to the world. And she didn't care if she had to use her beauty queen smarts to get people too take a bite- because once they had a taste of her flavors, of the garlic and olive oil and pinches of smoked paprika, pimentón ,they would know. Carmen Vega wasn't just another pretty face. She was an artist.

City of Gold. City of Water. City of Faiths. Quien no ha visto Sevilla, runs a saying, no ha visto maravilla .

Milionaria' is the first song I've composed and I published in Catalan, it's also the first song I do inspired by Catalan rumba. I started it in Seville while I was waiting at the airport and I finished it in Barcelona.

The critique of the domesticated Jesus has a long pedigree, perhaps the most notable being Dostoyevsky's chilling account of Jesus having the audacity to show up and disturb the machinations of the crusades in Seville (which, in fact, Jesus doesn't disturb at all precisely because his nonviolence can be so easily silenced).

Cuerpo a cuerpo he de matalle donde Sevilla lo vea, en la plaza o en la calle; que al que mata y no pelea nadie puede disculpalle; y gana más el que muere a traición, que el que le mata.

The nationalists justified the brutality of their repression as reprisals for the red terror, but as had been the case in Seville, Córdoba and in Badajoz, and as would be the case in Málaga six months later, the subsequent nationalist killings exceeded those of the left several, if not many, times over.

There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville.

Baile La Carmen está bailando por las calles de Sevilla. Tiene blancos los cabellos y brillantes las pupilas. ¡Niñas, corred las cortinas! En su cabeza se enrosca una serpiente amarilla, y va soñando en el baile con galanes de otros días. ¡Niñas, corred las cortinas! Las calles están desiertas y en los fondos se adivinan, corazones andaluces buscando viejas espinas. ¡Niñas, corred las cortinas! * * * * *

I think this is the special character of the people from Seville. They have a really open spirit and receive everyone like family.

They were relatively small, out of necessity. One of Seville's limitations as a port was the shallowness of the Guadalquivir River;

Disputes over the crew's composition and pay bedeviled Magellan until the moment of the fleet's departure from Seville.

Following a bitter dispute with King Manuel, Haro left Lisbon for Seville

On the day before the fleet's departure from Seville, August 9, 1519, Magellan was summoned from his frantic last-minute

Qualified sailors were rare in Seville, and qualified sailors willing to risk their lives on a voyage to the Spice Islands rarer still.

And on January 20, 1518, Magellan, along with Ruy Faleiro and Ruy's brother Francisco, set out from Seville for Valladolid.

A week after leaving Seville, the fleet reached the snug coastal town of Sanlúcar de Barrameda

By October 20, 1517, he had arrived in Seville

the largest city in Andalusia, in southwestern Spain. Ruy Faleiro, and possibly Francisco, joined him

Only Seville was capable of providing Magellan with the technology, the labor, and the financial resources

On his first voyage, Columbus kidnapped some ten to twenty-five American Indians and took them back with him to Spain.55 Only seven or eight arrived alive, but along with the parrots, gold trinkets, and other exotica, they caused quite a stir in Seville.

The doctor asked him to return when the swelling disappeared. Seville means to go back, he says, but he just doesn't have the time to spend commuting and hanging out in the waiting room. "I got to spend all day getting food and ready for the night, and then I got to spend all night staying warm.