Top 146 Portuguese Quotes & Sayings

I've recorded in Portuguese, too. I didn't set out to just sing ballads or romantic songs.

No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese.

A Portuguese is not going to punch you for no reason.

When I take my free-kicks, I think in Portuguese, and at most, I'll do the celebrating in my native tongue.

I am like all Portuguese people in that I admire Mourinho a lot.

When you hear Portuguese, if you're listening fleetingly, it's as if you're hearing Russian, which never happens with Spanish. Because the Portuguese and the Russians share the open vowels and the dark "L," the "owL" sound.

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

My homeland is the portuguese language.

Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and German.

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.

It's part of my DNA as a Portuguese. Like many of my ancestors, there's that need to discover the world - exploration is in my blood.

Who is not patriotic can not be considered Portuguese.

I never watched British television. I bought myself a satellite for French, Spanish and Portuguese TV, instead.

I have two Portuguese league titles behind me, and although the Spanish league is different I am going to do my best.

Portugal was born in the shadow of the Catholic Church and religion, from the beginning it was the formative element of the soul of the nation and the dominant trait of character of the Portuguese people.

Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese.

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 United.

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

My father is Portuguese, and in Portugal, it is traditional to take your mother's maiden name as a middle name. My mum is called Tough.

We, Portuguese, make this country very big.

If something is not right we give out about it. He is almost a Yorkshireman with a Portuguese accent.

The research carried out in the area of language technology is of utmost importance for the consolidation of Portuguese as a language of global communication in the information society.

My daughter's Portuguese.

We're very aggressive speakers. I remember when I was with one of my roommates in New York - and she's Portuguese, too - and we were in an Apple store talking about a computer in Portuguese. Some guy comes up to us and goes, "Hey, hey! Peace, peace! Stop arguing." It's not arguing. This is really just how we talk.

It's fun when the writers start writing jokes to you, but also it's fun when the writers will come to you and say 'Hey, listen, we're working on this story and we need to know if you speak any foreign languages.' And I said 'No, I don't. I speak a little Spanish, but I can learn a foreign language.' And they go 'Okay, do you think you can learn Portuguese?' And I go 'Yeah, whatever it takes. If it's funny, I'll do it.' So of course I start looking online and learning Portuguese, and as it turns out, I get the script and it's now Serbian.

During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, "Remember men, you are Portuguese!"

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

From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.

Romania are more Portuguese than German.

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.

As paredes tem ouvidos. (Portuguese: The walls have ears.)

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

When I think of Peter Wolf I always remember the Portuguese proverb: 'Never say you will not drink from that glass again.'

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

I speak English, Portuguese, and French. One day I'd love to learn Italian.

On the Iberian Peninsula in the Spanish-Portuguese area, southern France that high state of a culture existed there because of Africans known as Moors had come there and brought it there.

My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father's side.

I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.

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

Tempura-style batters were originally brought to Japan by Portuguese missionaries in the 16th century.

My mother was born on February 8, 1944, in Lucknow, India. Her father, Albert, was half-Indian and half-Portuguese.

Portugal have a mix of players and talent, which is what Portuguese players and coaches are often about. It's like play-ground football.

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.

I can speak English, Portuguese, and a bit of Spanish, or Sportugal. It's a mix of Portuguese and Spanish. I understand French and Italian, but I can't speak them.

We know about Portuguese football, we know the Portuguese culture.

'De nada,' replied Gregorius. The Portuguese couple sat down, the train went on. Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were his first Portuguese words in the real world and they worked. That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or cry: even as a child he had found it extraordinary and it had never stopped impressing him.

The connections are very important with the fans, with the journalists, with the people. The Portuguese like to do this - it's a characteristic.

The 1966 World Cup was the high point of my career. We may have lost the semi-final, but Portuguese football was a big winner.

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.

Nobody appropriates novelties as readily as the Portuguese.

I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name.

'Conexao,' which means 'connection' in Portuguese, is about exploring the more nuanced highs and lows of romance.

We have always felt the support of the Portuguese people. We are a small country, but with many qualities.

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

We speak loud. And we speak with our hands, but we're not aggressive like warwise. A Portuguese is not going to punch you for no reason.

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'm Portuguese. After lunch, I need an espresso.

I'm going to be a very bad Portuguese right now - I'm actually not a fan of pastel de natas. I'm just not a fan of cream.

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

I listen to a variety of music. I like everything from old Arabic music to Portuguese fados.