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  • Hispanics speak Spanish or Portuguese, which are languages we Americans are familiar with, so it doesn't seem to pose the same types of problems as Arabic-speaking Muslims do in Europe.

  • Over the years I've learnt to live with two persons in my heart. One is Edson, who has fun with his friends and family; the other is the football player Pele. I didn't want the name. 'Pele' sounds like baby-talk in Portuguese.

    Football   Baby   Fun  
  • I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

    Community   Black   Lucky  
  • I don't get what's happening to Jose Mourinho of late. He's lapsing into the kind of Portuguese moroseness you get from staring at the Atlantic horizon and imagining you're the last place in the world, while listening to endless renditions of the fado. His latest line about 'everyone hates us and we don't care' sounds like vintage Joe Kinnear in the great days of the Wimbledon Crazy Gang.

    Soccer   Football   Hate  
  • I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking Portuguese. I wish that I spoke more languages than I do.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • If something is not right we give out about it. He is almost a Yorkshireman with a Portuguese accent.

  • The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.

    Community   Lazy   Sleepy  
    Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4194, Delphi Classics
  • The Portuguese, Dutch and English have been for a long time year after year, shipping home the treasures of India in their big vessels. We Germans have been all along been left to watch it. Germany would do likewise, but hers would be treasures of spiritual knowledge.

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

  • Who is not patriotic can not be considered Portuguese.

    "Political ideology of the state Salazar" by Jorge Campinos, Portugalia Editora (p. 22), 1975.
  • I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese.

  • But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago.

    Marine   Hands   Years  
  • I'm half-Italian and my name is Portuguese. Michael Young is half-Mexican. There are players from the United States that have heritage elsewhere and it's a great thing to have a world cup to celebrate the whole world. It shows the world that baseball is important and how great the game is.

  • Luke rose to his feet. "I'm taking five minutes for some air. I'll be back. " He felt them watching him as he made his way to the front doorsall of them, even Amatis. Senhor Monteverde whispered something to his wife in Portuguese; Luke caught "lobo", the word for "wolf", in the stream of words. They probably think I'm going outside to run in circles and bark at the moon.

    Running   Moon   Thinking  
    Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Glass”, p.339, Simon and Schuster
  • The acknowledgement that this person is English, white, or French, or German, this is Portuguese, this is Rwandan, this is Senegalese, this is a black South Africans is a glorious thing. To speak of those positively, to say that they have characteristics, each one of them, that the others almost always do not have, and that there is a complementarily about it.

    White   Black   Speak  
    Source: v1.sahistory.org.za
  • The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing, have seen their territory invaded by a new kind of slave: the Portuguese.

    Che Guevara (2013). “The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey”, Ocean Press
  • My homeland is the portuguese language.

    "A Factless Autobiography" by Fernando Pessoa, translated by Richard Zenith, Lisbon, (p. 230), 2006.
  • At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of well-educated Mozambicans to try to run the country.

    "Henning Mankell's Mozambique". www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2010.
  • My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father's side.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese.

    Mom   House   Portuguese  
    "Interview with Chef Emeril Lagasse of Emeril's - New Orleans, Louisiana". Interview with P. Greaney, www.starchefs.com. October 2011.
  • I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.

    "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 353, 2006.
  • There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements.

    Class   People   Degrees  
    William Bligh (2012). “Mutiny on the Bounty”, p.28, Courier Corporation
  • When I think of Peter Wolf I always remember the Portuguese proverb: 'Never say you will not drink from that glass again.'

    "Looking for Gatsby". Book by Faye Dunaway, 1995.
  • She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he'd never studied. Maybe it would be like this, now, for Josie. Maybe her native tongue, from here on in, would be a string of lies.

    Lying   Men   Class  
    Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster
  • From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.

  • I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join Manchester United.

    "United land other Ronaldo". www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2003.
  • Any sizeable Portuguese town looks like a superstitious bride's finery - something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.

    Blue   Europe   Looks  
    Mary McCarthy (2002). “A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays”, New York Review of Books
  • I have never said, as is sometimes believed, or even suggested that lower-class children should not learn the so-called educated norm of the Portuguese language of Brazil. What I have said is that the problems of language always involve ideological questions and, along with them, questions of power.

    Paulo Freire (2005). “Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach”
  • I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.

  • Congratulations. You have met your conscience. In my experience, the world is divided between those who have one and those who don't. And the ones with one are divided into those who will act on their conscience and those who won't. Those who will are, I'm afraid, the smallest category. They will *jeito*. It's Brazilian Portuguese. It means to find a way to get something done, no matter what the obstacles.

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