Spanish Quotes

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

You can't just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate.

Spanish football is very good but every year the same teams win the league.

I realized how Latina I was, and then also, at the same time, how not Latina enough I was, because I'm born and raised in Los Angeles. I speak Spanish, but I don't speak perfect Spanish, not like a native speaker.

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing.

I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish.

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

I'm not a salsa singer who wants to sing in English, and I'm not this American kid who wants to sing Spanish.

Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish.

I wish I could speak Spanish, because it would be a lot easier to play more interesting roles.

Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.

I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii.

At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.

I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began.

First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

BUT, in terms of attractiveness, speaking in terms of physical aspects only I think that Argentinean, Italian, Mexican, and Spanish men are among the most attractive men.

Hello? Three words: Benicio Del Toro, which, incidentally, is Spanish for 'he wants me.' It is just ridiculous how hot he is. I feel the same way about Benicio as I did when I was a kid lusting after David Cassidy.

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.

There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.

One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man.

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.

As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed.

I definitely want to teach my daughter Spanish.

If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react.

We are a very typical Spanish family - a bullfighter, an actress, a flamenco dancer and singer!

Let us work toward greater cooperation with all Caribbean Countries, whether we speak English, Dutch, French or Spanish, whether we are independent or not, and whether we be island or continental territories.

First, when I was 12, I saw a Spanish girl jumping rope. I never saw her face, but it was still the most beautiful sight I'd ever seen.

I think that we must come together progressively, with the British, the Germans, the Spanish, the Italians and with the new members of the European Union, we must make an effort to forge closer links.