Quotes About Spain

But my very latest discovery made me feel better. I had found that every rooster has his own Spain and he has it under his feathers.

conforme España, mal gobernada, continuamente en guerra, endeudada y empobrecida, trataba de reponerse del gran trauma de la derrota de su Armada Invencible frente a los ingleses en 1588.

But from each hollow of SpainSpain comes forth.

España no experimentó una clásica revolución burguesa en la que se rompieran las estructuras del Antiguo Régimen. El poder de la monarquía, de la nobleza terrateniente y de la Iglesia seguían más o menos intactos bien entrado el siglo XX.

Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.

he had charged that the democratic countries of the world had "retreated at every step" before the onslaught of fascism, and that "the Colored people of the United States must ever keep in mind that the reactionary forces seeking to smash democracy in Spain are the same forces which would destroy our constitutional rights at home.

I cook croquetas, and I eat jamon. I keep my diet 100% Mediterranean and drink my Rioja. In that sense, I have a piece of Spain in West Hollywood.

la Armada Invencible; ya saben, cañonazo va y ola viene y todo a tomar por saco, con aquel pulso fatal entre nuestro buen Rey Don Felipe Segundo y esa arpía pelirroja que se llamó Isabel de Inglaterra, amparo de protestantes, hideputas y piratas, más conocida por la Reina Virgen, aunque maldito si puede uno imaginarse virgen de qué

I believe that all Spaniards?—even those fighting us—wish that this war could have been settled one way or another by Spaniards alone. We never wanted our country to become a battleground for foreign powers.

guess she used to put the horns on him quite a bit. Anyway, about three months ago, just after this war started, she gave him the bird—finally and for good. So he came to Spain to forget his broken heart in the hell and shellholes of Ávila.' After a pause he went on: 'What got me was our friend's description of their poignant parting scene. When he asked her, "Do they mean nothing to you, those nights of love

So after I have completed this service and have safely delivered this bounty to them, I will set off to Spain by way of you.