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Quotes About Granada

il poema di Pedro Manrique, La victoria (1573), cit. in A. Cioranesco, Un poème inconnu de don Pedro Manrique, in Mélanges Mario Roques, Paris 1982, 37-49, 46: «el tercio qu'es de Napoles famosa – le tray don Pedro illustre de Padilla [...]. El de Siçilia [...] le tray don Diego Enriquez [...]. Va don Miguel antiguo de Moncada – con gente catalana y de Valençia, don Lope con la gente de Granada».
~ Alessandro Barbero
I did a couple of sketch shows with Mike Palin and Terry Jones... and then I got hired by Granada to do a weekly topical show.
~ Diana Quick
Conference of the Birds inspired some of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and gave the Swiss the legend of William Tell. Chaucer had been dead for almost a hundred years when the Spanish reconquest of Granada in 1492
~ John Baldock
Mataron a Federico cuando la luz asomaba. / El pelotón de verdugos no osó mirarle la casra. / Todos cerraron los ojos; / rezaron: ¡ni Dios te salva! / Muerto cayó Federico / -sangre en la frente y plomo en las entrañas- / Que fue en Granada el crimen / sabed -¡pobre Granada-, en su Granada
~ Antonio Machado
Look up, Granada. Look to your people. We as beautiful and as plentiful as them stars knitted together in heaven. We just forgot. Somebody's got to remember for us all.
~ Jonathan Odell
It is only under the plane trees of Granada that la cachucha is danced by eternally young gypsies. Eternally young, like the roses are, because every spring there are new ones.
~ Selma Lagerlöf
Leave me in Granada in the middle of paradise where my soul wells with poetry; Leave me until my time comes and I may intone a fitting song. Yes, I want my memorial stone in this land. Granada! Holy place of the glory of Spain, Your mountains are the white tents of pavilions, Your walls are the circle of a vase of flowers, Your plain a Moorish shawl embroidered with colour, Your towers are palm trees that imprison you
~ Jose Zorilla
How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!
~ Ernest Hemingway
When I moved to Manchester, to work as a runner for Granada, I shared with a researcher called Vicky who took pity on my inability to cook and made me meals for three years. Put in charge of cookery on a live kids' show I'd buy cookies from a shop to show as 'ones we made earlier.'
~ Zoe Ball
The river Guadalquivir Flows between oranges and olives The two rivers of Granada Descend from the snow to the wheat Oh my love! Who went and never returned The river Guadalquivir Has beards of maroon The two rivers of Granada One a cry the other blood Oh my love! Who vanished into thin air
~ Federico García-Lorca
I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.
~ Alexei Sayle
When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be, it was my good fortune to be there at that time - the BBC was firmly asleep.
~ Michael Apted
Spain is my kind of football, I was happy Granada were interested.
~ Andreas Pereira
This was taken yesterday in southern Spain. Granada to be precise.
~ Kyle Mills
The traveler wishing to observe Islamic Spain has his choice of two cities, Granada with its Alhambra or Córdoba with its Great Mosque (in Spanish Mezquita). Of the two former is be a considerable degree the more exciting and also the easier to absorb for its buildings, gardens and geographic settings are immediately recognizable as significant. It would take a dull man to miss the point of Granada, for its Alhambra is a museum of Islamic memories.
~ James A. Michener
I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion
~ Unknown
You foreigners, you're all the same! You come here to find out about Fredrico's death, yet you don't know a damn thing about what really happened in Granada in 1936." - Gerardo Ros
~ Unknown
I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion.
~ Unknown