Portuguese Quotations

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.

The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia.

I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent.

My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner and play Portuguese folk songs on it. I couldn't wait for him to finish so I could get my hands on it. I was seven or eight years old. And he used to have a Fender amp in his house and an electric guitar. I would spend hours making sounds.

I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese.

Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese.

From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.

My brother and I have matching tattoos on our arms. It says, 'Humility is strength,' in Portuguese and Italian, because my genius brother taught English in both Italy and Brazil.

He has a heart as big as his country, ... Nuno Gomes is like that, he can be having a bad patch for his club, but when it comes to defending the Portuguese colors he's explosive.

We've got to win both games now. It's all or nothing against Russia. We'll need all Portuguese support behind us.

It has been a beautiful thing to see, the flags draped on balconies and cars, faces painted, the red and green of our cloth everywhere, ... I hope the Portuguese can keep the spirit up and lend it to their everyday lives.

We'll be more careful now. There will be more surprises. Greece has proved the teams that are considered underdogs here are well-organized too. The Portuguese have shown us how not to play.

Utah may well be the most cosmopolitan state in America. Vast numbers of young Mormons - increasingly women as well as men - spend a couple of years abroad as missionaries and return jabbering in Thai or Portuguese and bearing a wealth of international experience.

We offered him before a lot of guys could have a chance to kind of evaluate the kid. He feels very comfortable to come to play for a guy who speaks Portuguese on the coaching staff and who understands the culture and who he feels is going to look out for him.

We have given Portugal a day of joy. We gave everything we had to give. Without this crowd behind us and the Portuguese people, we wouldn't have been able to do it. The team is more competitive. It showed what we need to go farther.

We're not making genuine Portuguese music, but we used its spirit in the movie's score.

This year we have several baptisms to perform at the Vigil on Saturday. There is a very large Portuguese and Spanish community in Milford so on Sunday we offer Masses in English and Spanish. Our 10:30 Masses will probably be attended by 1,300 people.

We've got the Portuguese boys who have won a few things and the rest of us who are hungry for a taste of it. It's the right combination to win things. I think we are quite popular at the moment because people like to see a new team coming through, but maybe our aim is to be hated because we keep on winning.

The Portuguese are fighting for their lives. I expect them to put us under a lot of pressure and throw everything into attack,

We are very excited to see the Tutor Time brand expand into the Portuguese child care and early education market. As we have seen in our other international franchise schools, Tutor Time's strong academic reputation and emphasis on caring for the whole child can be successfully translated into other cultures.

Euro 2004 can provide a springboard for the Portuguese to say, 'Ah yes, we can!

This is yet another example of how agents react and adapt to ever-changing immigration trends. When agents started arresting large numbers of Brazilians in the RGV sector, we relied heavily on these agents to translate using their knowledge of the Portuguese language.

I was 14 years old. I did an audition for extra work as an actor, with two lines. Suddenly I was auditioning for a bigger role, and then got a part on a Portuguese TV series at age 15. My whole life changed completely.

I know there are tons of Spanish and Portuguese speakers on campus, but we haven't been able to reach them yet. This is a volunteer organization and getting key individuals who are passionate about this work is so important.

I have the impression that the Portuguese presidency will explain this position of the other 14 member states very clearly when the matter is raised,

Chris can sing a lot of different kinds of songs, so we can cover a lot of styles. But even he has limits. We won't be covering Antonio Carlos Jobim and singing in Portuguese anytime soon.

I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.

The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.

My homeland is the portuguese language.

No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese.

I keep boxes filled with recuerdos - little memories that are in the form of pictures and events that I've written down. It's funny that I chose to write them in Spanish rather than English or Portuguese.

PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.