Quotes About Spanish

Cementerio El Encinal meant Cemetery of Many Oaks (I'm taking Spanish so that when Jesse and I have kids, I'll understand what he's saying when he yells at them in his mother tongue).

Tengo oído que las toledanas son muy femeniles y han muy buenas posaderas y muslos muy firmes y ejercitados de subir cuestas.

Por esa época, José Cadalso Vásquez escribe: <>. Se refiere, por supuesto, a la vigilancia impuesta por la Santa Inquisición sobre el intelecto — y la sexualidad—de los españoles — y también de los americanos—

Glas wen. En galés, sonrisa azul. Una mueca malévola ante el sufrimiento de nuestro peor enemigo.

La aceptación serena de la tragedia, este pasearse tranquilamente entre el más acá y el Más Allá, es lo que daba al español de antaño su gravedad honda, su aplomo honrado y sufriente, su firmeza ante la adversidad. El español de antaño sabía que el más acá es un valle de lágrimas que hay que caminar con entereza, para ser digno acreedor de un Más Allá de caricias encendidas y venas vibradoras

esta hermosa ciudad. Abgaro estaba impaciente.

He sucked his lips in an attempt not to laugh. "Aren't you Spanish?" She raised one arm in a salute. "Viva la Queen Isabella!" "I see. Then why are you speaking with a French accent?

Creo que los toros es la fiesta más culta que hay en el mundo. Es el drama puro en que el cual el español derrama sus mejores lágrimas y su bilis. Es el único sitio a donde se va con la seguridad de ver la muerte rodeada de la más deslumbradora belleza (...)

En la península ibérica el latín se partió en dos troncos que los lingüistas han denominado iberorromance y occitanorromance. Del primero proviene el castellano, el portugués, el gallego y el asturleonés. Del segundo el catalán, el valenciano, el aragonés y el occitano.

Para la mayoría de los españoles ya resulta una gran sorpresa que alguien les hable de los Siete Pecados Capitales, porque el español se limita a pensar en uno, el de la lujuria.

IKI ?? = VIDA GAI ?? = VALER LA PENA

I wrote poetry, which got me into lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John pulled me into pop. I started singing with a band - just for fun - when I was 17. And pretty soon, I was thinking I could sing pop in English as well as Spanish.

My father came from a country called Bolivia. He was of Spanish descent. I never went to Bolivia until I was 60 years old, but apparently when he was 17, he had already planned his entire academic curriculum so that he could graduate high school and enter college in the United States. That's how much he wanted to come to this country.

Early economic theory was rooted in the Italian, French, and Spanish traditions, which were subjectivist oriented. Then it shifted onto the terrible path by Smith and Ricardo and the British classical tradition, which is 'objectivist' - values are in inherent in production.

We hope to do the Spanish Tragedy based on the play by Thomas Kyd.

The problem is that I work in more than one genre. It's impossible for me to aim for a single one because, for me, comedy is mixed with tragedy. That's very Spanish, the way in which comedy and tragedy are inextricable from each other.

The International Brigades provided a shock force while the Republic trained and organized an army from an assemblage of individuals. The Spanish people knew they were not fighting alone.

There are a lot more teams in the Spanish league, and the biggest transformation came in the English women's league when the amount of teams got cut down.

Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years.

I love the song 'El Rey.' And for years, I never knew what the song was totally about. It was something new for me. I'd never sung a song in Spanish before. Then I got the translation and saw what a really cool song it was.

Singing in Spanish is much more honest, much closer to my roots. For me, Spanish is essential. I still think in Spanish, dream in Spanish. It's the melodies and arrangements that transmit meaning.

And I have a dream of a New American Language, one with a little bit more Spanish. I have a dream of a new pop music, that tells the truth with a good beat and some nice harmonies.

Bobbie went back to her room, remembering again that Manuel had insisted it was not a Spanish word. Out of curiosity, she looked in the little English dictionary, and to her surprise she found the word there, too: raptor
[deriv. of L. raptor plunderer, fr. raptus]: bird of prey.

I come from Divisadero Street. Divisadero, from the Spanish word for 'division,' the street that at one time was the dividing line between San Francisco and the fields of the Presidio. Or it might be derived from the word divisar , meaning 'to gaze at something from a distance.' (There is a 'height' nearby called El Divisadero.) Thus a point from which you can look far into the distance