Quotes About Spain

If I've learned one thing in Spain, it's that we have to fight the Communists just as hard as the Fascists. They're both evil.

What about America? They believe in democracy. Surely they'll sell guns to Spain?" "You'd think so, wouldn't you? But there's a well-financed Catholic lobby, led by a millionaire called Joseph Kennedy, opposing any help to the Spanish government. And a Democratic president needs Catholic support. Roosevelt won't do anything to jeopardize his New Deal.

El general rebelde, Franco, había conseguido el respaldo de la Iglesia católica.

Es cierto. Si algo he aprendido en España es que tenemos que combatir a los comunistas tanto como a los fascistas. Son perversos, los unos y los otros.

A million butterflies rose up from South America, All together, and flew in a gold storm toward Spain...

Spanish Expulsion and its ripples One of the great disruptions experienced by Jews prior to the modern age occurred in Spain with the Edict of Expulsion in 1492.

Not until 2006 did documents surface in Spain that detailed the extent of Columbus's tyranny and depravity.

In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.

Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.

Amar los toros es, cada tarde, eso de las cinco, creer en los Reyes Magos e ir a su encuentro

She was in Spain, I believe. Kids were chasing her and screaming 'Maricona' and throwing stones at her.

Yet the Visigoths' intangible legacy was far more important: they left behind a powerful myth of a Golden Age of Christian rule that ended when most of Spain became part of the Muslim world. This myth would shape the destiny of Spain and the Spanish language.

Juan Manuel María de la Aurora Fernández Pacheco Acuña Girón y Portocarrero (1650–1726)—the

Sometimes we also find a tendency to view everything that's indigenous as good and anything European-such as Spain-as evil. That view overlooks such historical realities as the Aztec empire's oppressive domination of other indigenous societies and its class system, which privileged priests and the military. That view also forgets Spain was not a typically European nation after 600 years of rule by the Moors, an Arab/Berber people from Africa.

No me dejó terminar la frase y así, el último beso de aquella noche me enseñó lo más importante. Que nada, ni los hielos del invierno, ni las borrascas del norte, ni el Patronato de Redención de Penas, ni Franco, ni lo que había hecho con España, ni siquiera ese Dios torpe y tullido que acababa de quedarse manco y ya no tenía fuerzas para apretar, para ahogarme a la vez entre sus dedos, iba a impedir que yo fuera feliz en Cuelgamuros

En España no se podía vivir, pero vivíamos. Los que tenían una oportunidad, se fugaban a Francia o se echaban al monto. Los que habían perdido todas, se suicidaban. Para los que no teníamos la ocasión ni el coraje de escapar, sólo existía una receta, conformidad, paciencia y, sobre todo, resignación

La dirección del Partido Comunista de España, por razones igual de evidentes, hace lo que puede, que es casi todo, para que no se hable del valle de Arán, ni de las circunstancias del ascenso de Monzón, ni de las causas que lo hacen posible, ni de su gestión al frente del Partido en Francia y en España

I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.

Real Madrid? There is no agreement, but I promised my grandfather I would play there one day. Why wouldn't I want to discover new things? As I've said several times, I'd like to play in Spain and have good weather for once in my life!

Running with the bulls was the scariest and craziest thing I have ever done.

They value different things in every country. In England, it's very physical. You tackle, you shoot. I love watching it. In Spain, it's different. Pass the ball, move, find the space.

In Spain, the game's a lot more open. They score a lot more goals. They play football more. Here in Italy, they are much more concerned with tactics and strategy, and sometime we don't play football.

Football in England is much more direct that in Spain - not just in terms of tactics or style but in the overall approach.

In Spain, players have an official price tag, just like shirts hanging in a shop do.