#portugal

As soon as the news of the Cabot voyages reached the King of Portugal he arranged to send an expedition of discovery to the far north-west, perhaps to find a northern sea route to Eastern Asia. ↗

— Harry Johnston

#asia #discovery #eastern #expedition #far

Seeing no better jobs on the horizon than flipping hamburgers with so much grease it would make Portugal, Italy, and Spain jealous, I decided to go back to school. It reminds me of something Zelda’s mom told her in November 2007: “Some people flip condos and make millions. Your boyfriend couldn’t even flip burgers and make minimum wage. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#condos #depression #economic-depression #economy #horizon

I know people are looking at what's happening in Washington and then they also look at events in Europe, in Greece and Portugal and other places and worry about that. ↗

— Julia Gillard

#also #europe #events #greece #happening

The commerce of India does not grow, nor does that of Portugal, or of Turkey; that but that of the protected countries does increase, as has been shown in the case of Spain, and can now be shown in that of Germany. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#case #commerce #countries #does #germany

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

— Nelly Furtado

#brazil #comes #heritage #i #instrumentation

I did think that I had a stalker for a while. But in Portugal, luckily, my wife was there to save me. ↗

— John Higgins

#had #i #luckily #me #portugal

Portugal is a high hill with a white watch tower on it flying signal flags. It is apparently inhabited by one man who lives in a long row of yellow houses with red roofs, and populated by sheep who do grand acts of balancing on the side of the hill. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#apparently #balancing #flags #flying #grand

But Portugal has a peaceful feel about it. I sit on the terrace overlooking the vineyard there and I feel cut off from the world. You need that sort of thing. ↗

— Cliff Richard

#cut #feel #i #i feel #need

Soon after I was born, my parents moved to the South Florida area, and I've lived here ever since (with a few years of living in both Portugal and Brazil in my younger days). ↗

— Joe Tex

#area #born #both #brazil #days

A consciência da insonsciência da vida é o mais antigo imposto à inteligência. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#intelligence #portugal #portuguese #tax #unconsciousness