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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Who is not patriotic can not be considered Portuguese.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Nobody appropriates novelties as readily as the Portuguese.

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.

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.

No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese.

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

Any sizeable Portuguese town looks like a superstitious bride's finery - something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.

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

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

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

I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am white and my main characters are white, outsiders at sea in the "Dark Continent."

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

Knowing English is important, but for us Venezuelans I think it would also be important to know Portuguese. For that reason, we should evaluate the possibility of it being taught in our schools.

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

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

My homeland is the portuguese language.

Mom ran the house, so we grew up 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.

One of the dogs in the competition, a Portuguese Water Dog, is related to President Obama's dog, Bo. But they only see each other at funerals and weddings.

Romania are more Portuguese than German.

Quem pausa para admirar a beleza se torna tambem belo.(One who pauses to admire beauty becomes, himself, beautiful.)

There is reinforcement in such familiar back-formations as Chinee from Chinese, Portugee from Portuguese.