Quotes About Spain

todos aquellos infelices, los soldados que acuden a disparar por las portas, los reclutas de leva, los campesinos sacados de sus casas, los mendigos, la chusma arrancada de tabernas, hospicios y penales que ahora se afana en torno a los cañones, asomados a la boca misma del infierno, corean con rugidos que sí, que vivaspaña, cagüensanpedro y cagüentodo, joder, Santa María, madre de Dios, ruega por nosotros, pecadores.

la Constitución de 1978, consensuada por todas —subrayo el todas— las fuerzas políticas y redactada por notables personalidades de todos los registros, había definido la España del futuro con nacionalidades y regiones autónomas, a punto de caramelo para diecisiete autonomías de las más avanzadas de Europa

En 1986 entrábamos en la Comunidad Económica Europea, y el progreso y la modernidad llegaron para quedarse. Alfonso Guerra lo había clavado: A España no la va a reconocer ni la madre que la parió. … Y así fue, y así es todavía.

Si Felipe IV se hubiera puesto al frente de los viejos y gloriosos tercios y hubiera recobrado Holanda, vencido a Luis XIII de Francia y a su ministro Richelieu, limpiado el Atlántico de piratas y el Mediterráneo de turcos, invadido Inglaterra, izado la cruz de San Andrés en la Torre de Londres y en la Sublime Puerta, no habría despertado tanto entusiasmo entre sus súbditos como el hecho de matar un toro con personal donaire...

establecimientos públicos de moral relajada o equívoca, que en aquella España paradójica, singular e irrepetible, se veían tan frecuentados como las iglesias, y a menudo por la misma gente.

el nacionalismo catalán jugaba fuerte para conseguir una autonomía propia (la primera pitada al himno nacional tuvo lugar en 1925 en el campo del F. C. Barcelona, con el resultado inmediato —eran tiempos de menos mamoneo y paños calientes que ahora— del cierre temporal del estadio).

Otra hubiera sido la historia de nuestra desgraciada España si los impulsos del pueblo, a menudo generoso, hubieran primado con más frecuencia frente a la árida razón de Estado, el egoísmo, la venalidad y la incapacidad de nuestros políticos, nuestros nobles y nuestros monarcas.

MIRANDA: No quiero el amarillo de España. Quiero la independencia de mi tierra. A nadie traiciono. Quiero la independencia de mi tierra. Tengo que salir. Tengo que vivir. Me llaman muchos.

The rivalry between Real Madrid and Barcelona is very big.

Now, my friends, keep you from the white and from the red, and especially from the white wine of Spain that is for sale in the streets of London. This wine of Spain creeps subtly into other wines, which are grown nearby, from which there rise such fumes to the head that, when a man has drunk three draughts and thinks he is at home in London, he is in Spain, right at the town of Lepe—not in La Rochelle, nor at Bordeaux town—and then will he drunkenly say, "Samson, Samson!

In England, there is a tradition of playing on Saturday. But in Spain, I won the UEFA Cup with Valencia playing on Thursday and Sunday, which was just the same.

I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on TV Sunday night. Basically, very late at night. You don't watch, you just read the news after who won or who lost.

After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family.

I had a wonderful time in Spain. I had the pleasure of being a league champion twice in a row and playing for a big club like Real Madrid, which gave me a higher profile.

Spain's constitution was introduced to cement democracy after Franco's dictatorship, but this government is exploiting its wording as a means to deny us our right to vote.

The whole secret of the campaigns unleashed against Spain can be explained in two words: masonry and communism... we have to extirpate these two evils from our land.

In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain.

Whatever may be said as to our relations to some other countries, I think the relations of this country to Spain offer no ties of gratitude or of blood.

I visit him a few times downtown while he paints. We talk about how he's going to Spain for the fall semester and he shows me a painting he did and points to this one part, a bridge, and tells me he thought of me when he painted it. It is so sad how knowing something so small can make me so happy.

I thought I might go to the Cervecería Alemana on Plaza de Santa Ana.

No menos acertado fue al advertir que el movimiento independentista de Cataluña y el País Vasco, dos importantes regiones de España, sería en el futuro uno de los problemas más graves con los que tendría que bregar su país.

Typical of Iberia, both the Basques and the Catalans claim the word comes from their own languages, and the rest of Spain disagrees. Catalans have a myth that cod was the proud king of fish and was always speaking boastfully, which was an offence to God. Va callar! (Will you be quiet!), God told the cod in Catalan. Whatever the word's origin, in Spain lo que corta el bacalao, the person who cuts the salt cod, is a colloquialism for the person in charge.

Perhaps eager to put the boot in again, she agrees enthusiastically that Spain is indeed the New France but shrinks from the tiny bite, pinchos/tapas thing: I still have an attention span. I can eat a meal.

In short, throughout the eighteenth century the English were regularly involved in wars with Catholic France and Catholic Spain.