Latin famous quotes

Recordar: To remember; from the Latin records, to pass back through the heart
-- Eduardo Galeano

#Latin #Heart #Records

We Latins are known for jabbering on.
-- Eduardo Galeano

#Latin

The Latin American cause is about all a social cause: the rebirth of Latin America must start with the overthrow of its masters, country by country. We are entering times of rebellion and change. There are those who believe that destiny rests on the knees of the gods; but the truth is that it confronts the conscience of man with a burning challenge.
-- Eduardo Galeano

#Country #Latin #Believe

I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.
-- Eduardo Galeano

#Latin #Ignorance #America

The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth.
-- Eduardo Galeano

#Latin #America #Years

Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they seemed for a long time to have solved the international language problem up to a certain point, they did not really do so in spirit.
-- Edward Sapir

#Religious #Latin #Long

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.
-- Edward Sapir

#Latin #Language #Accepted

Writers in Latin America live in a reality that is extraordinarily demanding. Surprisingly, our answer to these demands protects and develops our individuality. I feel I am not alone in trying to give their voice to those who don't have it.
-- Elena Poniatowska

#Latin #Reality #Voice

As minorities, it is always our dream to merge our cultures and showcase to the world the talent that comes from both Latin music and Hip-Hop, .. I hope that together,we can create a new cultural movement that unites these audiences.
-- Emilio Estefan

#Dream #Latin #Hip Hop

There is a just Latin axiom, that he who seeks a reason for everything subverts reason.
-- Epes Sargent

#Latin #Reason

From the Latin word "imponere", base of the obsolete English "impone" and translated as "impress" in modern English, Nordic hackers have coined the terms "imponator" (a device that does nothing but impress bystanders, referred to as the "imponator effect") and "imponade" (that "goo" that fills you as you get impressed with something - from "marmelade", often referred as "full of imponade", always ironic).
-- Erik Naggum

#Latin #Bystanders #Ironic

The Latin words humus, soil/earth, and homo, human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word 'humble.' This is the Genesis origin of who we are: dust - dust that the Lord God used to make us a human being. If we cultivate a lively sense of our origin and nurture a sense of continuity with it, who knows, we may also acquire humility.
-- Eugene H. Peterson

#Latin #Humility #Humble

I feel I'll take on the responsibility of showing the world a whole different kind of Latin woman.
-- Eva Mendes

#Latin #Responsibility #Different

Globalization and the neoliberal economic model have already been rejected in Latin America; it simply hasn't been a solution for our people. At the same time, Latin countries like Venezuela and Argentina are anti-imperialist and anti-globalization, and yet their economies are growing again.
-- Evo Morales

#Country #Latin #America

Capitalism has only hurt Latin America.
-- Evo Morales

#Hurt #Latin #America

Historically, foreign powers have always been the ones to keep Latin nations divided.
-- Evo Morales

#Latin

We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle.
-- Evo Morales

#Lying #Latin #Law

With what moral authority can [the US] speak of human rights... the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar coexist; where the Indian is exterminated; the black man is discriminated against; the woman is prostituted; and the great masses of Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Latin Americans are scorned, exploited, and humiliated... Where the CIA organizes plans of global subversion and espionage, and the Pentagon creates neutron bombs capable of preserving material assets and wiping out human beings.
-- Fidel Castro

#War #Latin #Men

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
-- Fidel Castro

#Latin #Reality #Eugenics

We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
-- Fidel Castro

#Latin #Afros #Latin American

Taking the continent as a whole, this religious tension may be responsible for the revival of the commonest racial feeling. Africa is divided into Black and White, and the names that are substituted- Africa south of the Sahara, Africa north of the Sahara- do not manage to hide this latent racism. Here, it is affirmed that White Africa has a thousand-year-old tradition of culture; that she is Mediterranean, that she is a continuation of Europe and that she shares in Graeco-Latin civilization. Black Africa is looked on as a region that is inert, brutal, uncivilized - in a word, savage.
-- Frantz Fanon

#Religious #Latin #Black And White

The European powers had been anxious to see the United States become embroiled in a civil war and eventually break into two smaller and weaker nations. That would pave the way for their further colonization of Latin American without fear of the Americans being able to enforce the Monroe Doctrine.
-- G. Edward Griffin

#Latin #War #Two

Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#Latin #Reality #America

In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.
-- Gael Garcia Bernal

#Latin #America #No Money

In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.
-- Gael Garcia Bernal

#Latin #America #Use

I asked the producers when I was doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' if they could give me a VHS recording of the film that I could show to my family, because in Mexico and Latin America, when you do a film, you don't expect anybody to see it, especially not in the cinema.
-- Gael Garcia Bernal

#Latin #America #Giving

Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.
-- Gael Garcia Bernal

#Latin #Believe #Mean

The Latin proverb, ***** homini lupus — man is a wolf to man—... is a libel on the wolf, which is a gentle animal with other wolves.
-- Geoffrey Gorer

#Latin #Animal #Men

The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg

#Latin #Devil #Speak

Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.
-- George Andrew Olah

#Latin #Reading #School

Aimwell: Then you understand Latin, Mr. Bonniface? Bonniface: Not I, Sir, as the saying is, but he talks it so very fast that I'm sure it must be good.
-- George Farquhar

#Latin #Be Good

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.
-- George Mikes

#Latin #People #Greek

To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.
-- George Orwell

#Art #Latin #Struggle

A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics'. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.
-- George Orwell

#Real #Lying #Latin

But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time.
-- George Saintsbury

#Latin #Writing #Men

Not only does the world scarcely know who the Latin American man is, the world has barely cared.
-- Georgie Anne Geyer

#Latin #Men #Doe

Imperialism has layed its body over the world, the head in Eastern Asia, the heart in the Middle East, its arteries reaching Africa and Latin America. Wherever you strike it, you damage it, and you serve the World Revolution.
-- Ghassan Kanafani

#Latin #Heart #America

I happen to think Latinas, Latin women, are the most beautiful women in the world. So that's what I'm going to draw. I love women from all cultures, of course, but if I was going to deal with any of them, that would be No. 1 for me.
-- Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

#Beautiful #Latin #Thinking

It's an honor to represent a Latin culture.
-- Gio Gonzalez

#Latin #Honor #Culture

It is so important for me to keep authentic Cuban sounds alive. All of these great artists have changed the landscape of Latin music and it's an honor to have them on this album ["90 Millas," released in September of 2007]. I believe this album will expose a new generation to the richness of Cuban music.
-- Gloria Estefan

#Latin #Believe #Artist

You've got a new Spanish-language album out now ["90 Millas," released in September of 2007], and the single ["No Llores"] is #1 on the Billboard Latin chart.
-- Gloria Estefan

#Latin #Albums #September

Encyclopedia is a Latin term. It means "to paraphrase a term paper."
-- Greg Ray

#Latin #Mean #Paper

Although until recently the Church was closely linked to the established order, it is beginning to take a different attitude regarding the exploitation, oppression, and alienation which prevails in Latin America. This has caused concern among the beneficiaries and defenders of capitalist society, who no longer can depend on what used to be - whether consciously or unconsciously - one of their mainstays.
-- Gustavo Gutiérrez

#Attitude #Latin #America

The art of politics, under democracy, is simply the art of ringing it. Two branches reveal themselves. There is the art of the demagogue, and there is the art of what may be called, by a shot-gun marriage of Latin and Greek, the demaslave. They are complementary, and both of them are degrading to their practitioners. The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. The demaslave is one who listens to what these idiots have to say and then pretends that he believes it himself.
-- H. L. Mencken

#Art #Latin #Believe

My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.
-- Haley Reinhart

#Dad #Latin #Rocks

I am interested in garnering the white vote, and the black vote, and the Latin vote, and the Asian vote, and the business vote, and the labor vote.
-- Harold Washington

#Latin #White #Black

Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving winged feet toits god of art. Latin is the embodiment of the weighty and concentrated speech which is hammered and pressed and polished into the shape of its perfection, as the ethically minded Romans believed that the soul also should be wrought.
-- Havelock Ellis

#Running #Art #Latin

But oh! the Latin!-Madame, you can really have no idea of what a mess it is. The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. Lucky dogs! they already knew in their cradles the nouns ending in im. I on the contrary had to learn it by heart, in the sweat of my brow...
-- Heinrich Heine

#Dog #Latin #Heart

Our responsibility as Christians makes us tremble. The northern hemisphere, the developed area of the world, the 20% who possess 80% of the world's resources, are of Christian origin. What impression can our African and Asian brethren and the masses in Latin America have of Christianity, if the tree is to be judged by its fruits? For we Christians are largely responsible for the unjust world in which we live.
-- Hélder Câmara

#Christian #Latin #Responsibility

To the Latin, cynicism and middle age are synonymous. Look at our politicians - they move through their careers from left to center to right, like the hands of a clock.
-- Helen McCloy

#Latin #Moving #Careers

The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives.
-- Henry A. Wallace

#Country #Latin #America

Our chemical and other manufacturing concerns are all too often ready to let the Germans have Latin American markets, provided the American companies can work out an arrangement which will enable them to charge high prices to the consumer inside the United States.
-- Henry A. Wallace

#Latin #Work Out #United States

Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.
-- Henry A. Wallace

#Latin #War #America

The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America.
-- Henry A. Wallace

#Latin #America #Europe

What was said by the Latin poet of labor--that it conquers all things--is much more true when applied to impudence.
-- Henry Fielding

#Latin #Conquer #Poet

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
-- Hilaire Belloc

#Latin #Soul #Tea

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
-- Horace

#Latin #Mind #Path

I was what you are, you will be what I am.
-- Horace

#Latin

The mad is either insane or he is composing verses.
-- Horace

#Latin #Mad #Insane

Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.
-- Horace

#Latin #Matter #Serious

Remember to keep the mind calm in difficult moments.
-- Horace

#Latin #Mind #Calm

The dispute is still before the judge.
-- Horace

#Latin #Judging #Disputes

From the egg to the apple.
-- Horace

#Latin #Eggs #Apples

One Sallow does not make Summer.
-- Horace

#Summer #Latin #Doe

The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget.
-- Horace

#Latin #Men #Forget

Limbs of a dismembered poet.
-- Horace

#Latin #Poet #Limbs

The things, that are repeated again and again, are pleasant.
-- Horace

#Latin #Pleasant

The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke.
-- Horace

#Latin #Yoke #Tribes

Capture the day, put minimum trust on tomorrow.
-- Horace

#Latin #Tomorrow #Capture

It is sweet and honorable to die for your country.
-- Horace

#Country #Sweet #Latin

It is delightful to play the fool.
-- Horace

#Latin #Play #Fool

I am doubting what to do.
-- Horace

#Latin #Doubt

Half is done when the beginning is done.
-- Horace

#Latin #Done #Half

The wolf attacks with his fang, the bull with his horn.
-- Horace

#Latin #Bulls #Horns

We are deceived by the appearance of right.
-- Horace

#Latin #Appearance #Deceived

Those who cross the sea, change sky, but not soul.
-- Horace

#Latin #Sea #Sky

Don't waste the opportunity.
-- Horace

#Latin #Opportunity #Waste

One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.
-- Horace

#Latin #Wicked #Laziness

Long live the Unity of Latin America.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Latin #America #Long

Most governments in the United States in a hundred years have not respected the peoples of Latin America. They have sponsored coup d'etats, assassinations.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Latin #Years #America

In the United States, the government is bailing out banks, intervening in the economy, yet in Latin America, the Right continues to talk about 'free markets.' It's totally outdated; they don't have arguments; they don't have any sense.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Latin #America #Government

Man's respect for knowledge is one of his most peculiar characteristics. Knowledge in Latin is scientia, and science came to be the name of the most respectable kind of knowledge.
-- Imre Lakatos

#Latin #Men #Names

If I'm a guy who doesn't seem so merry, It's just because I'm so misunderstood. When I was young I ate a dictionary, And that did not do me a bit of good. For I've absorbed so many words and phrases— They drive me dizzy when I want to speak. I start explaining but each person gazes As if I spoke in Latin or in Greek.
-- Ira Gershwin

#Latin #Guy #Greek

Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently motivated but equally fearful, become accomplices in maintaining a clerical and irrelevant Church. Sacralizing employees and property, this Church becomes progressively more blind to the possibilities of Sacralizing person and community.
-- Ivan Illich

#Latin #America #Community

Latin America can no longer tolerate being a haven for United States liberals who cannot make their point at home, an outlet for apostles too "apostolic" to find their vocation as competent professionals within their own community. The hardware salesman threatens to dump second-rate imitations of parishes, schools and catechisms -- out-moded even in the United States -- all around the continent. The traveling escapist threatens further to confuse a foreign world with his superficial protests, which are not viable even at home.
-- Ivan Illich

#Latin #Home #School

Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done. These models may be fairly sophisticated and recent, as is perhaps the case with 'motive' or 'impulse', but one of the commonest and most primitive types of model is one which is apt to baffle us through its very naturalness and simplicity.
-- J. L. Austin

#Latin #Simplicity #Done

Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.
-- J. L. Austin

#Latin #Done #Models

Status Quo is Latin for the mess we are in.
-- Jack Graham

#Latin #Status Quo #Mess

The less a writer discusses his work and himself the better. The master chef slaughters no chickens in the dining room; the doctor writes prescriptions in Latin; the magician hides his hinges, mirrors, and trapdoors with the utmost care.
-- Jack Vance

#Latin #Writing #Doctors

Chemistry is a gibberish of Latin and German; but in Leibig's hands it becomes a powerful language.
-- Jacob Grimm

#Powerful #Latin #Hands

A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.
-- Jacqueline Bisset

#Teacher #Memories #Latin

Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the creative or producing, work-making activity of the human mind. By Poetry I mean, not the particular art which consists in writing verses, but a process both more general and more primary: that intercommunication between the inner being of things and the inner being of the human Self which is a kind of divination (as was realized in ancient times; the Latin vates was both a poet and a diviner). Poetry, in this sense, is the secret life of each and all of the arts.
-- Jacques Maritain

#Art #Latin #Writing

Curitiba is not a paradise. We have all the problems that most Latin American cities have. We have slums. We have the same difficulties, but the big difference is the respect given by people due to the quality of the services which are provided.
-- Jaime Lerner

#Latin #Cities #Differences

Dancing is part of me now! The Latin dances are where my passions are.
-- Jake Pavelka

#Latin #Passion #Dancing

Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.
-- James Boswell

#Latin #Drs #Should

A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age had no use for it, and the kind of Latin poetry that does rhyme - as for instance the medieval 'Carmina Burana' - tends to be somewhat crude stuff in comparison with the classical verse that doesn't.
-- James Fenton

#Latin #Age #Stuff

It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.
-- James Loeb

#Growing Up #Latin #Our Generation

If your cat's speaking Latin, you might have a problem.
-- Jason Hawes

#Latin #Cat #Might

I decided to go to Latin America because many of my students in Washington emigrated from this region and inspired me to learn more about their home countries.
-- Jenna Bush

#Country #Latin #Home

I didn't go to Latin America thinking, 'I'm gonna write a book. This is what I'm gonna do.' I went there to work for UNICEF and to learn.
-- Jenna Bush

#Latin #Book #Writing