Quotes About Catalonia

#1. There are hundreds of thousands of Scots who acknowledge English, Irish or Welsh parts of their very being. Lives and destinies are similarly intertwined in Catalonia and Spain, in Ukraine and Russia.

Michael Ignatieff

#2. FC Barcelona is the national team of Catalonia

Carles Puyol

#3. The literature of the Spanish Civil War is also important to me. Above all George Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" as well as the writing of John Dos Passos and Ernest Hemingway. They worked on a film together in Spain during that war, which ended their friendship.

George Packer

#4. I know that most domesticated animals aren't indigenous to this country. So guess what, cat? You can beat it. Go back to Catalina Island or Catalonia, Spain, or Katmandu, or wherever the hell your hairy ass is from! 'Cause this is America and around here - Katmandon't.

Arj Barker

#5. The first parts of Europe 'to emerge from barbarism,' Briffault says, were those most directly under the influence of 'Moorish' culture: the Spanish Marches of Catalonia, Provence, and Sicily.

S.E. Al-Djazairi

#6. Secessionists, whether in Scotland, Catalonia, Quebec or anywhere else, invariably assume that a person must either be Scottish or British, Catalan or Spanish, Quebecois or Canadian. What about those who feel they are both?

Michael Ignatieff

#7. Millions of Spaniards have Catalonia in their hearts.

King Felipe VI

#8. If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease ... Men sleep contentedly, assured that they will wake the following morning. They should feel the same about their lives.

Richard Matheson

#9. Edwin Yorke was attractive and intelligent and employed--the holy trifecta of good men.

Tiffany Reisz

#10. You are My Mother, the Mother of Mercy, and the consolation of the souls in Purgatory.

Brigit Of Kildare

#11. It is a horrible thing to have to enter into the details
of inter-party polemics; it is like diving into a cesspool.

George Orwell

#12. Many roads open pathways to authenticity. For some it is disciplined practice, for others revelation, for others service. Regardless of how we get in touch with authenticity or how authenticity gets in touch with us, the engagement is ongoing and forever challenging.

Rob Terry

#13. Amnesia and complete indifference to history (especially the history of technological amnesia) remain the defining features of contemporary Internet debate.

Evgeny Morozov

#14. Libel settles nothing.

George Orwell

#15. No, let the monarch's bags and others holdThe flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.

John Wolcot

#16. The government has to spend money during a recession, because their spending is our earning.

Linda Ronstadt

#17. Fall the deep curtains,
delicate the weave,
fair the thread.

Hilda Doolittle