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Quotes About Spain

Un soldado entusiasta que tomó parte en la expedición puso en verso su visión de la promesa de gloria para España: Españoles, españoles, ¡Que todos os han temor!
~ Henry Kamen
A coach I had in Spain, Scott Roth, he used to call me Zinger. He would yell at me all the time, 'Zinger!' It's just stuck in my head that I don't like that name.
~ Kristaps Porzingis
On the morning of January 17, 1966, a real-life dirty bomb crisis occurred over Palomares, Spain. A Strategic Air Command bomber flying with four armed hydrogen Bombs - with yields between 70 kilotons and 1.45 megatons - collided midair with a refueling tanker over the Spanish countryside.
~ Annie Jacobsen
I really enjoy traveling to... I went to Spain. That was really cool. Japan was really cool. France was really cool.
~ Nathan Chen
I have always considered it a beautiful metaphor that Cervantes had no fixed address in Spain. He is thus everywhere and nowhere. There are a number of sites connected with his life, but none attract hordes of travellers the way Stratford-upon-Avon and the Globe Theatre in London draw Shakespeare aficionados.
~ Ilan Stavans
Spain's parties must steel themselves to do the sensible thing and treat the Catalonia issue with the seriousness it deserves.
~ Carles Puigdemont
I think Spain will always remain inspirational, and I think French cuisine will continue to be very French and yet very relevant with its time and keep evolving. But the last thing you want for it is to become too trendy and confusing. It has too much history.
~ Daniel Boulud
The Great Armada of Spain was probably the worst-kept secret in sixteenth-century Europe. Philip's government was notoriously leaky; indeed some of the king's most secret planning was known in the states of Italy, long skilled at gathering foreign
~ Stephen Alford
Another man of sheer violence was the late Stewart Boyd, he was killed in a car accident over in Spain's Costa del Sol shortly after being released from prison in June 2003. But he certainly left his mark on the city streets of Glasgow. He was a force to be reckoned with, a gang enforcer. Murder and witness intimidation were high on his criminal charge sheet.
~ Stephen Richards
El árbol de España, was a 16-minute documentary about Spanish olive growing. [...] The film formed part of a major promotional campaign by the National Union of Olive-Growers to raise awareness of Spanish olive products in the USA. The piece also states that the film is thought to have been seen by as many as eight million Americans, which raises the real possibility that El árbol de España is the most widely seen Jess Franco film of all time!
~ Stephen Thrower
I got down on my knees and prayed to Almighty God for guidance. And one night late it came to me: we could not give [the Philippines] back to Spain — that would be cowardly and dishonorable; we could not turn them over to France or Germany … that would be bad business; we could not leave them to themselves — they were unfit for self-government. There was nothing left for us to do but to take them all … then I went to bed and slept soundly.
~ Sterling Seagrave
I love Spain. It's my favorite country that I've been to and I've traveled quite a bit. I've been really fortunate as an adult to have been to a lot of interesting places like Egypt and China.
~ Bitsie Tulloch
I love Spain. I go back two or three times a year usually to visit friends and ride horses.
~ Bo Derek
I think La Liga is the best league in the world.
~ Gareth Bale
Before I retire I'd like to play in La Liga.
~ Marcos Alonso
I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!
~ Karlie Kloss
But far more than the Jewish quarter or the bestequipped monastery, the cleanest corner of early medieval Europe was Arab Spain. Unlike in Christianity, cleanliness was an important religious requirement for the Muslim, and a ninth-century observer described the Andalusian Arabs as "the cleanest people on earth.
~ Katherine Ashenburg
the cleanest corner of early medieval Europe was Arab Spain.
~ Katherine Ashenburg
In Spain, the early Christian concerns about the corrupting influence of bathing and the late medieval worries about the plague were compounded by the Moorish occupation. Because the Moor was clean, the Spanish decided that Christians should be dirty.
~ Katherine Ashenburg
Les musulmans en Espagne ne furent persécutés qu'à partir du moment où le clergé était devenu trop puissant par rapport au pouvoir temporel ; celui-ci, qui relève de l'empereur, représente dans ce cas l'universalité ou le « réalisme », et partant la « tolérance », donc aussi, par la force des choses, un certain élément de sagesse.
~ Frithjof Schuon
Spain?" Jesse said and glanced about at the others, but they looked equally perplexed. "Spain?" "Yes, to Baldr's castle. Where did you think he lived? The North Pole?
~ Brom
The tragedy of his last months was a natural expression of the tragedy of Spain, where culture, eloquence and creativity were giving way to militarism, propaganda, and death. Before long, there was even a concentration camp called 'Unamuno' for republican prisoners.15
~ Hugh Thomas
The middle class in Spain were aghast at this murder of the leader of the parliamentary opposition by members of the regular police
~ Hugh Thomas
The middle class in Spain were aghast at this murder of the leader of the parliamentary opposition by members of the regular police. It was now natural to assume that the government could not control its own agents
~ Hugh Thomas