David Hewson Quotes

The culture of modern Spain is something many people are still discovering.

Spain today, rather than a nation, is a cloud of dust remaining after a great people have galloped down the highway of history.

I have been in Spain a lot of years and I have a lot of love for the country.

I'm very, very Spanish. I have fat cheeks on both ends. I'm sitting on my Spanish part. And it's my heart, the way I am, the way I speak. It has nothing to do with the way I look.

The Spanish people are a glorious people, something is happening in Spain which may mean much to the rest of the world.

I was born in Spain.

And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain's condition.

Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my great predecessor Santiago Ramon y Cajal.

I go to Spain a lot, in winter, for a blast of sunlight to banish the blues brought on by the Irish greys and drizzle. I love the cities of the Spanish interior.

The Spanish love their paella, and they love their jamon. And they love their football.

Representing Spain is very important.

In Spain, there's a lot more publicity.

All of the Spaniards are really talented. I don't know what they eat.

In Spain there's the king - and then there's Antonio.

In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.

Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor - they are too subtle to seem Spanish.

My father was born and raised in Havana, Cuba. His family is from Spain. My father never taught me how to speak Spanish when I was little. That's very disappointing to me. I'm still planning on learning it on my own. I really want to travel to Spain and immerse myself in the culture and learn it on my own.

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

I'm always proud to wear the colours of Spain.

One day, I would like to go over to Spain to play just to see what it's like and to experience that.

Since the first minute, I fell in love with Spain - the people, the way of life, the food. I have kept up the late dinners, the siesta, and most of the television I watch is Spanish.

The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.

A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world.

Arca means 'box' or 'wooden' in very old Spanish. It's a ceremonial container where you store jewelry or valuables, an empty space that can become pregnant with whatever music or meaning I give to it.

I learned a lot in Spain.