Latin famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
-- Aaron Klug -
Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.
-- Aaron Sanchez -
I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
-- Ahmed Ben Bella -
One of these days in the next 10 years, I will play 'Evita.' I don't know when or where, but I love 'Evita', especially with all my Latin and Spanish studies. It's a very demanding role but I'd love to play it.
-- Aileen Quinn -
In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also in Hindu philosophy, they call the world illusion; and in Latin the root of the word illusion is ludere, to play.
-- Alan Watts -
I can read more languages than I speak! I speak French and Italian - not very well, alas, but I can get by. I read German and Spanish. I can read Latin (I did a lot of Latin at school.) I'm afraid I do not speak any African languages, although I can understand a little bit of the Zulu-related languages, but only a tiny bit.
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
Furthermore, the Latin American nuclear-weapon free zone which is now nearing completion has become in several respects an example which, notwithstanding the different characteristics of each region, is rich in inspiration.
-- Alfonso Garcia Robles -
The reason is that Chile is the brightest spot in Latin America. It has very fast growth, low unemployment. It privatized its Social Security system, which we in USA were unable to do.
-- Allan H. Meltzer -
The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.
-- Alma Guillermoprieto -
Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.
-- Alphonse Karr -
When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.
-- Alvaro Uribe -
TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source --the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Am I Latin? Am I American? What the hell am I? I love my culture and I'm very proud of my culture
-- America Ferrera -
The word comfort is from two Latin words meaning “with†and “strong†– He is with us to make us strong. Comfort is not soft, weakening commiseration; it is true, strengthening love.
-- Amy Carmichael -
We might say that the dream tranforms the dreamer; that it possesses the ability to 'initiate', to bestow new meaning, to motivate new beginnings (Latin: initium - beginning), to permit our entrance (literally 'en-trance'; Latin: inire init - to go in) to new orders of relation between ourselves and the 'other'.
-- Andrew D. Chumbley -
Emo means different things to different people. Actually, that's a massive understatement. Emo seems solely to mean different things to different people—Like pig latin or books by Thomas Pynchon, confusion is one of its hallmark traits.
-- Andy Greenwald -
Various Eastern fathers referred to the practice of married priests in their churches, offering each one of us elements for a further careful evaluation of the choice of the Latin church to connect celibacy to ordained priesthood.
-- Angelo Scola -
Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.
-- Anna Lindh -
The school even had a Latin motto: Pergo et Perago, which sounded like the story of two Italian cannibals but which actually meant “I try and I achieve.
-- Anthony Horowitz -
I am a teller of stories...a weaver of dreams. I can dance, sing, and in the right weather stand on my head. I know seven words of Latin. I have a little magic and a trick or two. I know the proper way to meet a dragon, can fight dirty but not fair, and once swallowed thirty oysters in a minute. I am not domestic. I am a luxury, and in that sense, necessary.
-- Anthony Minghella -
I don't like the Samba; it's nonsense. With a lot of these Latin dances I can't really understand what they're all about. I like the Rumba and the Paso Doble but the others I could take or leave.
-- Anton du Beke -
I'm a bit of a traditionalist; the ballroom is all about tails and I never mess about with that. But for the Latin you can have a bit fun: tight trousers, gold shirt open to my waist, be a bit ridiculous.
-- Anton du Beke -
Is it a man walking on the beach, winking at the girls and looking for going to bed? Is it someone who wears a lot of gold chains and rings and sits at the bar? Because this is not me! I am very, very Latin, but not so much lover.
-- Antonio Banderas -
Every man is the artisan of his own fortune.
-- Appius Claudius Caecus -
I like the idea of a love story between men. There is a great affection between men, which exists much more in ethnic groups: Latin, Italian, Jewish.
-- Arne Glimcher -
For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms.
-- Arthur Rimbaud -
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
-- Augustus -
May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and stable basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the architect of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die, that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand deep and secure.
-- Augustus -
If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
-- Augustus -
Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
-- Augustus -
There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.
-- Barbara Amiel -
We are developing in the United States a huge underclass of unwanted people, many of them the descendants of the exploitation of the South American and Latin American countries by American piratical capitalism. Not all capitalism is piratical, but some of it certainly is. And we have a fantastic gap beginning to exist between rich and poor.
-- Benedict Groeschel -
There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.
-- Benicio Del Toro -
I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and processes. It grew without a name until 1975, when I coined a new word to denote it, fractal geometry, from the Latin word for irregular and broken up, fractus. Today you might say that, until fractal geometry became organized, my life had followed a fractal orbit.
-- Benoit Mandelbrot -
Latin! The language of God! Or perhaps He speaks Hebrew? I suppose that's more likely and it will make things rather awkward in heaven, won't it? Will we all have to learn Hebrew?
-- Bernard Cornwell -
There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifery.
-- Bernard de Mandeville -
I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.
-- Bianca Jagger -
Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.
-- Bianca Jagger -
Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.
-- Bill Bryson -
English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with which it has precious little in common.
-- Bill Bryson -
I want all Hispanics in the Republican Party, in the Democratic Party, whether Latin Americans, Central Americans, Cubans, Mexicans, I want us to unite.
-- Bill Richardson -
To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.
-- Billie Burke -
I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me too pretentious, too narrow. Prose is more open, popular.
-- Blaise Cendrars -
We've got a lot of pressure going. This is for my Latin counterpart.
-- Bobby Bonilla -
A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
-- Brander Matthews -
Courage is a heart word. The root of the word courage is cor - the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart." Over time, this definition has changed, and today, we typically associate courage with heroic and brave deeds. But in my opinion, this definition fails to recognize the inner strength and level of commitment required for us to actually speak honestly and openly about who we are and about our experiences -- good and bad. Speaking from our hearts is what I think of as "ordinary courage.
-- Brené Brown -
Latin men are the most passionate men in the world - they may not be the most aggressive, but they are very passionate, very romantic.
-- Brooke Burke -
We the undersigned, intend to establish an instruction and training institution which differs from the common elementary schools principally in that it will embrace, outside of (in addition to) the general and elementary curriculum, all branches of the classical high school, which are necessary for a true Christian and scientific education, such as: Religion, the Latin, Greek, Hebrew, German, French and English languages; History, Geography, Mathematics, Physics, natural history, Introduction to Philosophy, Music, and Drawing.
-- C. F. W. Walther -
Television: The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.
-- C. P. Scott -
My Latin roots are very strong. All my life, because I'm blonde and blue-eyed, people who aren't Hispanic can't believe I am. And people who are Hispanic always think I'm not, because I don't look like them. Being Latin is part of who I am and I bring that part to every role.
-- Cameron Diaz -
The subject matter covered in Carmina stays pretty basic: love, lust, the pleasures of drinking and the heightened moods evoked by springtime. These primitive and persistently relevant themes are nicely camouflaged by the Latin and old German texts, so the listener can actually feign ignorance while listening to virtually X-rated lyrics. (Veni Veni Venias! Come, come come now!)The music itself toggles between huge forces and a single voice, juxtaposing majesty and intimacy with ease...
-- Carl Orff -
The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
-- Carlos Fuentes -
Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.
-- Carlos Fuentes -
In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
-- Carlos Fuentes -
First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
-- Carlos Santana -
If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without regard to race. Such an effort would upset the program of the oppressor in Africa and America. Play up before the Negro, then, his crimes and shortcomings. Let him learn to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton. Lead the Negro to detest the man of African blood--to hate himself.
-- Carter G. Woodson -
It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.
-- Catherynne M. Valente -
I'm what is known as perimenopausal. "Peri", some of you may know, is a Latin prefix meaning 'SHUT YOUR FLIPPIN' PIE HOLE'.
-- Celia Rivenbark -
We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.
-- Cesar Romero -
If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day, so they wanted to change it to February 14. A Latin lover should be born on Valentine's Day. I said no.
-- Cesar Romero -
Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I was folio-high/ when I first heard the voices.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
I am not in any way opposed to medieval studies (or for that matter Latin).
-- Charles Clarke -
Learn to say no; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and made the most of it.
-- Charlton Laird -
Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only with such vague Latin terms as intercourse and cohabitation.
-- Charlton Laird -
Somebody told me once I wasn't Latin enough, and that made me laugh
-- Chita Rivera -
When I was growing up, I was as socially outcast as any nerd could possibly be. I was in the chess club, I brought D&D stuff to school, I had every game system you could imagine, I spent countless hours at arcades, computer camp, loud presence in the Latin Club. All that stuff.
-- Chris Hardwick -
I love Latin women, yet for some reason I always wind up with blondes.
-- Chris Kirkpatrick -
I was on a walking tour of Oxford colleges once with a group of bored and unimpressable tourists. They yawned at Balliol's quad, T.E. Lawrence's and Churchill's portraits, and the blackboard Einstein wrote his E=mc2 on. Then the tour guide said, 'And this is the Bridge of Sighs, where Lord Peter proposed (in Latin) to Harriet,' and everyone suddenly came to life and began snapping pictures. Such is the power of books.
-- Connie Willis -
I play video games and watch TV, but there's more to life than that. Faxing and the Internet have created a global community. The kid next door has become the kid in Latin America or Asia.
-- Craig Kielburger -
I bring a lot of passion to my life and my politics - I don't mind saying there is a very strong Latin component to it.
-- Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner -
Latin life is rich with warmth, family values and history. I want to bring that beauty into American homes.
-- Cristina Saralegui -
We Latin women are liberated from the neck up, not the neck down.
-- Cristina Saralegui -
Prophecy is rash, but it may be that the publication of D.T. Suzuki's first Essays in Zen Buddhism in 1927 will seem to future generations as great an intellectual event as William of Moerbeke's Latin translations of Aristotle in the thirteenth century or Marsiglio Ficino's of Plato in the fifteenth.
-- D.T. Suzuki -
It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.
-- Damian Lewis -
No, I had no problem communicating with Latin American heads of state - though now I do wish I had paid more attention to Latin when I was in high school.
-- Dan Quayle -
For fiction, Im not particularly nationalistic. Im not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
-- Daniel Alarcon -
I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
-- Daniel Alarcon -
I do feel fortunate to have some knowledge of the great Latin American writers, including some that are probably not that well known in English. Im thinking of Jose Maria Arguedas, whom I read when I was living in Lima, and who really impacted the way I viewed my country.
-- Daniel Alarcon -
The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist
-- Danny Glover -
People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.
-- David Byrne -
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.
-- David Crystal -
The first Latin music that blew my mind was bumba, which was a Puerto Rican beat.
-- David Johansen -
There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returning to the ground of our being.
-- David Whyte -
Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel.
-- David Wilkerson -
My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.
-- Desi Arnaz -
Rural communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America are where the majority of hungry people are and the inequality that exists between women and men in these communities is holding back progress. These women have a very tough time, so much is expected of them.
-- Dionne Warwick -
Though he had very little Latin beyond "Cave canem," he had, as a young dog, devoured Shakespeare (in a tasty leather binding).
-- Dodie Smith -
The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.
-- E. V. Lucas -
Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
-- Earl Blumenauer -
I've done a bit of Latin in my time...but I can control it.
-- Eddie Izzard -
Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
-- Edmund Waller -
The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of
-- Ednita Nazario -
Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
-- Ednita Nazario -
I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia.
-- Eduardo Galeano
