Quotes About Spain

So in Europe, we had empires. Everyone had them - France and Spain and Britain and Turkey! The Ottoman Empire, full of furniture for some reason. And the Austro-Hungarian Empire, famous for fuck all! Yes, all they did was slowly collapse like a flan in a cupboard.

No hay razón práctica que justifique el deseo de independizarse de España. Comparativamente, y pese a todo, España no es un mal país. Podría ser mejor, pero dudo de que Cataluña, librada a sus fuerzas, se convirtiera en el paraíso que anuncian los partidarios de la nueva República.

In 1585, after a year's siege by Parma's army, Antwerp - the chief stronghold of the revolt in the south - capitulated. From this point, the southern provinces were Spain's; the north was on its own. The second stage of this critical period of Low Countries history thus begins with the provinces divided. It is from this date that the firm shape of the two modern nations of Holland and Belgium starts to appear

It commanded an empire stretching from Spain (which it had inherited from the Carthaginians nearly a century before)

Caesar had written a new will during the brief Italian holiday on his return from Spain in 45 B.C.

We were doing a gig in Spain and yet again had four hotel rooms that never get used. We always share a bed. So we're all in bed together and we've all got wind. And we thought it would be funny to put it on Instagram. Farting on cue.

It's the change of rhythm which I think is what keeps me alive. In Spain I hear so much noise from my window that can't stand it. In Switzerland it's the lack of noise that drives me crazy.

When I started in 1978, the greatest wine in Spain, Vega Sicilia, wasn't even imported to the United States. The alleged greatest Australian wine, Penfolds Grange, wasn't imported to the United States. There were no by-the-glass programs. Sommeliers were intimidating.

If I had to get lost in a fictional world? I would love to go with those Hemingway characters in 'The Sun Also Rises' when they go on that trip in Spain, and they go fishing. And they take the wine bottles, and they put them in the river.

I like California wine, I really like wines from Washington state. I love wines from Spain and Italy. I don't know about French wines at all.

To the Spains will come a very powerful king, by land and sea subjugating the South; This will cause harm, lowering again the crescent, clipping the wings of those of Friday.

After Wings I did a lot of recording rather than live work. I even went into a kind of semi-retirement to places like Spain at one point.

My fondest memories are of being hidden away in Scotland or Spain writing and working on songs for Wings.

That's the only thing I'm jealous about 'Game of Thrones': they get to go to Spain all the time.

In another all-too-common example, the populist Vox party in Spain had its Twitter access temporarily suspended when, in January 2020, a politician in the Socialist Party accused the Vox party of "hate speech," for opposing the Socialist-led government's plan to force schoolchildren to study gender ideology, even if parents did not consent.

American, Swiss, and Japanese taxpayers are pretty honest. So are most of the other Western European democracies. Greece, Spain, and Italy are not. In fact, the level of tax evasion in Greece is such that the country's deficit—which is so large that Greece has teetered on the brink of outright bankruptcy for years—would all but disappear if Greek citizens obeyed the law and paid what they owed.

I came away with pieces of you sticking to me; I am walking about, swimming, in an ocean of blood, your Andalusian blood, distilled and poisonous.

It is too bad we could not have gone to Spain. There I am sure it would have been grand—even Barcelona. But these imitation Parises are frightful. Morbid. It makes one realize that 9/10 of humanity is moronic—just beast and plant. If the earth is theirs, then let them have it.

Sweet wine from Spain and gossip from France; the sun in the windows dimmed, sorrowed prettily as the day declined, until the candles' light was mirrored in the glass. Their dabbling flames were like guesses at a feeling, the hearth's fire like the feeling itself. It was a beautiful pastime she had missed; hours that had stepped light-footed on Emilia's memory and passed on.

I wish I was in Spain now, a glass of wine and a plate of ham." He sighs. "Instead of which I've got all this shit to sort out.

Ya hay un español que quiere vivir y a vivir empieza, entre una España que muere y otra España que bosteza. Españolito que vienes al mundo te guarde Dios. una de las dos Españas ha de helarte el corazón.

Españolito que vienes al mundo te guarde Dios. Una de las dos Españas ha de helarte el corazón.

We are the last remaining country to allow ourselves two breaks in the season. You just have to look at England, Italy and Spain, they play right through the season. We on the other hand take six weeks off in the winter until the end of January, and that is a luxury.

I go to Spain a lot, in winter, for a blast of sunlight to banish the blues brought on by the Irish greys and drizzle. I love the cities of the Spanish interior.