Quotes About Portugal

I was born in Boston, and when I was two and a half, my parents moved to Minneapolis. And then from there, when I was five, we moved back to Portugal. But before that, a lot of family members had come to visit us, and we had been back to Portugal many times because my whole family lived there.

I'd visited South Africa even before I started playing for Portugal, because I used to come here with my brother when I was still a kid.

But Portugal has a peaceful feel about it. I sit on the terrace overlooking the vineyard there and I feel cut off from the world. You need that sort of thing.

I've been fortunate enough to travel to comic conventions in Portugal, France, Canada, and it's an honor to get to meet people from all over the world.

yet, the sense of despair did not prevent a large number of Jews from taking leave and creating a new Sephardic diaspora. Initially, the largest group of exiles, perhaps 25,000, made their way to neighboring Portugal, where they stayed until the Portuguese king, son-in-law of Ferdinand and Isabella

le lanzó una mirada llena de rabia; en ese momento le hubiera gustado reventar a puñetazos la cara de ese antiguo aliado que le desafiaba abiertamente, pero pensó que la concordia entre portugueses y brasileños bien valía comerse el orgullo y los deseos de poner en su sitio a ese hijo de la grandísima.

People of my generation in Portugal fell into the magic potion of political ideas. What was very funny about this revolution was that it did not bring wealth to the Portuguese. But it brought language, ideas. You'd go to the fish market, and all the women who were selling fish would call each other fascist, communist.

Portugal is much like Brazil - the weather, the people, the food and the language is also a bonus.

I was born in Oxford. I grew up in Cascais, Portugal.

I want to finish in Portugal, in Benfica.

I grew up in Portugal, and people there party 'til 7 or 8 in the morning there.

I like to dream about Portugal, and it's less easy when you are there.

I am from a poor background in Portugal. We were medium-down, not down-and-out. My parents felt problems around food in the past but they made sure I did not miss anything. But there was nothing extra, no luxuries.

I've got two places I like to be. Portugal is one.

It is important to show our European partners that Portugal is a governable country.

With my experience with Metallica, I've already surfed Portugal, Morocco, and all over Australia with Kirk.

I bought some land in Portugal, on the highest hill in Guimaraes, because I pictured that I wanted to build my house there. I said, 'What a perfect place this would be,' but I forgot to ask the council if I could build a house there. When I did, they said, 'No!'

I just have to improve here at Chelsea. I played in Portugal but here it is a higher level so I'm sure I can improve a lot and I will work hard every day.

I was very happy in Portugal.

I turned down an offer to represent Portugal.

In Portugal the coach would sit on the bench and not say a word. We'd just play. It was a matter of us making mistakes and learning from them by ourselves. You understand the game a lot better that way.

It's very different, because in Portugal we don't play during the Christmas holidays. But I think it's very good for the fans and everyone around, because families can enjoy the games together during the holidays. For my family, it's also good because they like to see me perform and they like to see my play.

The bar for loud family meals is set pretty high when you come from Portugal.

Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.