Best Spanish Language Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Jorge’s andd Yesi’s experiences show how particular enactments of Puerto Ricaness and Mexicanness were viewed as problematic. Not coincidentally, Jorge and Yesi became marked in part because of their Spanish and English language practices, respectively.”

English Language Spanish Language Mexican Americans Puerto Ricans

Book:Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad

Source: Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad

“Así es. Todas las muchachas lindas son una trampa y los hombres esperan que lo sean.”

Spanish Language

Book:The Glass Menagerie

Source: The Glass Menagerie

“Let our voices be heard in all of our lunges. Not just English. I am an American and I speak Spanish and English.”

English Language Spanish Language

Author:Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa

“But it was only her old rival Payasa standing behind her. "¿De dónde?" Payasa sauntered toward her, head thrown back, joy on her face. She wore a blue plaid Pendleton jacket over khakis. Harsh, thick liner circled her defiant eyes. Her real name was Graciela. Payasa was her placa. It meant "clown." Her street name came from the way she wore her makeup, definitely not from her sense of humor.”

Clown Jimena Castillo Spanish Language Street Name

Book:The Choice

Source: The Choice

“Braulio rises and extends his hands, making peace. "No hay pedo," he says, the absurd lower-class slang for "There's no trouble here," which can only be translated as "There is no fart between us.”

Peace Trouble Sayings Translations Proverbs Spanish Slang Spanish Language

Book:Six Kinds of Sky: A Collection of Short Fiction

Source: Six Kinds of Sky: A Collection of Short Fiction

“You've got a new Spanish-language album out now ["90 Millas," released in September of 2007], and the single ["No Llores"] is #1 on the Billboard Latin chart.”

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Author:Gloria Estefan

“I hope to get my name out there more in the Spanish-language business side of the world.”

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Author:Julie Gonzalo

“I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.”

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Author:Miguel

“We had our moment [with Marc Anthony] in the third or fourth year that we were married, when we did everything together: We did "El Cantante," we did the tour, we made all the music together, he produced my album [2007's Spanish-language "Como Ama una Mujer"]. That was a really beautiful time for us.”

Years Made Moments Together Beautiful Language Married Thirds Albums Fourth Really Beautiful Spanish Language Fourth Year

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“I will never stop working on Spanish-language projects because that's my language, and because I'm a Latina and Mexican before anything else.”

Language Projects Mexican Latina Spanish Language

Author:Kate del Castillo

“I met some brothers out from Canada recently who are real cool people. They make Spanish-language music called Cold Blue and I met then at a Lat-Rap conference and they seem like real good peoples from Central America... and that's what it is. It's just based on mutual respect. So when I meet people like that I'm like, "if y'all going to be real with me, I'm going to be real with y'all" and that's all it takes.”

People Ifs Real Seems America Language Brother Cold Mets Blue Rap Canada Mutual Good People Being Real Conferences Mutual Respect Central America Cool People Spanish Language

Author:Immortal Technique

“The first time I went to Mexico, it was really difficult. Number one is the language, I didn't know any Spanish language. Of course, the culture itself. Very different from where I grew up.”

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Author:Tomoki Kameda

“I certainly like that the Spanish language is spoken around me.”

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Author:Andrew Breitbart

“Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.”

Speak Silence Communication Ever After Spanish Proverb Ability To Speak Spanish And English Spanish Language Speaking Spanish

Author:Edmund Muskie

“I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy.”

Firsts Done Language Albums Tongue Native Grammy Spanish Language

Author:Gloria Estefan

“Do not speak unless you can improve on silence, said a Buddhist sage.”

Said Speak Silence Buddhist Sage Spanish Proverb Ability To Speak Spanish And English Spanish Language Speaking Spanish

Book:What the Buddha Never Taught: A 'Behind the Robes

Source: What the Buddha Never Taught: A 'Behind the Robes

“My career did start in the Spanish language industry, and that's probably because my father is my manager. He pushed my career in the direction he knew best.”

Father Language Careers Industry Managers Spanish Language

Author:Jencarlos Canela