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Quotes About Santiago

Ya para agosto, las brigadas paramilitares derechistas bloqueaban el tráfico con barricadas ardientes y protagonizaban batallas campales con grupos de jóvenes izquierdistas en el centro de Santiago, mientras grupos estudiantiles de democratacristianos buscaban mártires en enfrentamientos con la policía durante manifestaciones contra políticas educacionales juzgadas perjudiciales para las escuelas privadas.
~ Peter Winn
He's surprised: But how do you know it? I say: It's on the way to Santiago de Compostela. He asks if I've never been there. I tell him no, never, but I read about it in a book and remembered it. He makes fun of me, saying: I was sure you were a boy like that, one who knows things just because you read it in a book. He then becomes despondent and adds: But what's worse is that if someone asked both of us, I'm pretty sure you would be able to talk about it way better than I could.
~ Philippe Besson
No. He had a few fruitcake sympathisers, of course—but there was nothing ecclesiastical about it. That came afterwards. The Santiago was largely secular, but they couldn't engineer religion out of the human psyche that easily. They took what Sky had done and fused his deeds with what they chose to remember from home; saving this and discarding that as they saw fit. It took a few generations until they had all the details worked out, but then there was no stopping them.
~ Alastair Reynolds
Cuando sucedió, Santiago no se dio cuenta de que aquélla era la gota que colmaba el vaso.
~ Almudena Grandes
I had brought up from Chile a contract agent whose cover was that of a newspaper publisher in Santiago, a young, very talented man, named Dave Phillips, who later on carved quite a career for himself in the agency.
~ E. Howard Hunt
Pablo Escobar! Aún se deben estar riendo, si es que se acuerdan de mi respuesta. —Argelia, Albert Camus —dije.
~ Santiago Gamboa
stunned it. Santiago, schooled in the ways
~ Simon Gandolfi
I swear, Santiago! You are an idiot!" "I'm only trying to help you along. The guy is all over you and you need to let him know your're interested before some other biker slut, such as yourself, snaps him up with a well-timed blow job.
~ Shelly Laurenston
Manuel, el padre de Santiago. Pero el hombre se mostró inflexible; no sólo respetaba la decisión de su hijo sino que además le parecía muy bien.
~ Julia Navarro
I'll go to Santiago. And the banana tree a jellyfish.
~ Frederico Garcia Lorca
If I was not born in this lifetime in New York, certainly in a previous life, I was a New Yorker.
~ Santiago Calatrava
At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.
~ Fidel Castro
Pero el reverso: lo que jamás me daría Santiago: para vivir dichosamente, yo necesito cielo y árboles. Mucho cielo y muchos árboles ¡Sólo los ricos tienen en Santiago estas cosas!
~ Gabriela Mistral
Inés Suárez (1507-1580), española, nacida en Plasencia, viajó al Nuevo Mundo en 1537 y participó en la conquista de Chile y la fundación de la ciudad de Santiago. Tuvo gran influencia política y poder económico. Las hazañas de Inés Suárez, mencionadas por los cronistas de su época, fueron casi olvidadas por los historiadores durante más de cuatrocientos años.
~ Isabel Allende
I was fifteen when I returned to Santiago, disoriented from having lived several years outside the country and from having lost my ties with my old friends and my cousins.
~ Isabel Allende
I like the word monument, because the word monument is a Latin word.
~ Santiago Calatrava
Santiago Bernabeu is the best stadium I have ever played in. I enjoy every minute on its pitch.
~ Luka Modric
It was a dream to play in a stadium as impressive as the Santiago Bernabeu.
~ Emmanuel Adebayor
With the exception of Santiago, a caravel, the ships were all classified as naos, a term that simply meant ships.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Unwilling to commit the entire fleet to the river, he dispatched Santiago, the smallest ship
~ Laurence Bergreen
After the tranquil respite, Santiago set sail and proceeded south in search of the strait. On May 22, the wind picked
~ Laurence Bergreen
until the device failed to respond. Santiago was now out of control
~ Laurence Bergreen
but the sea yielded only a few planks broken off from Santiago's hull.
~ Laurence Bergreen
My ambition is to give Oakland's cathedral a universal character independent of the Catholic Church.
~ Santiago Calatrava