Top 100 Quotes About Latin
#1. Historically, foreign powers have always been the ones to keep Latin nations divided.
Evo Morales
#2. Novelas are very respected in the Latin world.
Jaime Camil
#3. It became the country's official language in the 13th century under the reign of Alfonso X el Sabio (the wise one) as he tried to unify a country that was housing a number of languages, including arabic, hebrew and latin.
Pilar Orti
#4. In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.
Winston Churchill
#5. The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
Fidel Castro
#6. 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.
Dionne Warwick
#7. Providing all Latin-American children with the education and early childhood development that they need is in the best interest of all, so it has to be a priority for all of us, not only the government and civil society, but also the business sector.
Shakira
#8. 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
#9. I can't say I have enough experience with Hollywood to feel that I've encountered racism there. I can tell you that I did about five fruitless years of auditioning for voiceovers where I did variations on tacos and Latin accents, and my first screen role was as a bellhop on 'The Sopranos.'
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#10. Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the '60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the '70s, China in the '80s and '90s - all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists.
Naomi Wolf
#11. I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
Ahmed Ben Bella
#12. So-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time. I have called this mental defect the Lucretius problem, after the Latin poetic philosopher who wrote that the fool believes that the tallest mountain in the world will be equal to the tallest one he has observed.
Anonymous
#13. Growing up in Miami, I had all these great, strong influences. You know, being Cuban and the Latin influence, but also the strong hip-hop influence.
Kat Dahlia
#14. Status Quo is Latin for the mess we are in.
Jack Graham
#15. Somebody told me once I wasn't Latin enough, and that made me laugh.
Chita Rivera
#16. In Miami, there's a Latin flavor, and I just love every bit of it.
Ryan Guzman
#17. 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
#18. I think the best thing I can say about it - and I think the best thing you can say about anything, really - is that 'The Motorcycle Diaries' made me feel like my home was bigger; it made me feel at home anywhere in Latin America.
Gael Garcia Bernal
#19. I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms.
Stephen Stills
#20. We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred territory. I would not have ventured into it by myself.
Walter Salles
#21. Latin food is my guiltiest pleasure and my demise. My trainer hates when I go home to visit my mom and her cooking.
Zulay Henao
#22. I can't believe I spent 13 years at school and never got taught cooking, gardening, conversation, massage, Latin, or philosophy. What were they thinking? That I would somehow live off inorganic chemistry?
Neel Burton
#23. It was a master surgeon, him that ampytated me - out of college and all - Latin by the bucket, and what not; but he was hanged like a dog, and sun-dried like the rest, at Corso Castle.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#24. Many years ago, I started a foundation [Wayuu Taya Foundation] to help improve the life of Latin American indigenous people, providing them with food, medical attention, education, and also focusing on sustainability.
Patricia Velasquez
#25. I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood.
Jessica Hagedorn
#26. I'm extremely proud of being Latin; it's a big part of my life. It's not something I outwardly promote, just like I don't outwardly promote that I have green eyes and blonde hair. It's a part of who I am. I love the richness of the culture I grew up within.
Joanna Garcia
#27. Go to the devil with your Latin. Let us drink, my dear d'Artagnan, MORBLEU! Let us drink while the wine is fresh! Let
Alexandre Dumas
#28. Credit' comes from the Latin 'credere', 'to believe', for credit is the belief that the money you're borrowing will someday be returned, a belief that needs the future to function in.
Robert Rowland Smith
#29. The rise of salsa was such an important time in musical history, not just in Latin music but music in general, because these guys created a new sound.
Jennifer Lopez
#30. And once he had got really drunk on wine,
Then he would speak no language but Latin.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#31. I saved Latin. What did you ever do?
Max Fisher
#32. In Hebrew, His name is Jesus, in Greek, Soter, in Latin, Salvator; but men say Christus in Greek, Messias in Hebrew, Unctus in Latin, that is, King and Priest.
Thomas Aquinas
#33. Colombia has a huge variety of plant and animal species, and we have enormous potential. Small and mid-sized companies should come to Colombia. From here, they have access to the entire Latin American market.
Juan Manuel Santos
#34. 60. The use of the Latin language customary in a considerable portion of the Church is a manifest and beautiful sign of unity, as well as an effective antidote for any corruption of doctrine truth.
Pope Pius XII
#35. The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.
Noam Chomsky
#36. The people of North America have little idea of religion, but they have strict public morality. The Latin people are without morality but they are highly religious.
Patrick Marnham
#37. As a political current, Maoism was always weak in Britain, confined largely to students from Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Tariq Ali
#38. Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin).
Leo Tolstoy
#39. The word 'comfort' comes from the Latin words for 'with' and 'strength' and originally meant operating from a position of power.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
#40. In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.
Joseph Sobran
#41. I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds.
Ruben Blades
#42. In Paris, I felt connected to history in a way I did not in America. Elderly men I passed in the Latin Quarter, with empty sleeves pinned to the shoulder of their jackets, reminded me of the not-so-distant war.
Kati Marton
#43. The workforce in Latin America was treated as a vulgar instrument for capital accumulation.
Rafael Correa
#44. In Latin you say: "Repetita iuvant - to repeat is beneficial". The fewer changes made in a country, the more often I repeat my messages. And it works.
Mario Draghi
#45. There is an old Latin quotation in regard to the poet which says 'Poeta nascitur non fit' the translation of which is - the poet is born, not made.
Joseph Devlin
#46. In London, Washington, and Paris people talk of bonuses or no bonuses. In parts of Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, the struggle is for food or no food.
Robert Zoellick
#47. Nietzsche had the Latin pun aut liberi, aut libri - either children or books, both information that carries through the centuries.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#49. Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard.
Jose Saramago
#50. I do feel that I have to use my voice for those that don't have one. I have to do the best I can in my own work to represent my culture, represent the women of my country, of Latin America. What we stand for. What we're made of.
Shakira
#51. dies novus est," he said, quoting one of Flora's favorite Latin expressions. "Tomorrow is a new day.
Gillian Anderson
#52. I never thought I would get such a perfect role in 'Modern Family.' A lot of TV shows now are looking for more Latin women.
Sofia Vergara
#53. The revolutions of my century, the 20th century - the Soviet revolution, or the Chinese, or the revolutions that were fomented in Latin America, such as in Cuba - failed for the most part, a failure which was completely clear by the end of the century.
Stephane Hessel
#54. 'Religion,' I should note, has a disputed etymology in Latin: some say it's from 'relegere,' meaning 'to reread', while others say it's from religare, meaning 'to connect' or 'link.' Literature is life's fastener.
Joshua Cohen
#55. 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 Kirchner
#56. The revolution in Nicaragua was the first of its kind to be accomplished with the mass support of Christians, a fact that cannot fail to influence the further development of revolutionary movements in the whole of Latin America, whose inhabitants are predominantly Christian.
Ernesto Cardenal
#57. I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#58. I don't see how English as we use it in Europe can be revivified. It's like Latin must have been in about A.D. 300, tired and used up. All one can do is press very hard stylistically to make it glow.
John Banville
#59. 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
#60. Working with the Latin language is pretty powerful. Working with a language that is not spoken vernacularly is intense.
Eyvind Kang
#62. carpe diem." "What?" "It's Latin," I said. "It means, complain in daylight.
Jeff Lindsay
#63. 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
#64. I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought they would be or seemed to be.
Suzanne Farrell
#65. I'm a writer obsessed with remembering: with remembering the past of America above all - and above all, that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to forgetfulness.
Eduardo Galeano
#66. In Latin America in general, and Cuba in particular, poets have been the inspiration behind struggles for independence, struggles for freedom of all sorts.
Margarita Engle
#67. It's hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning for years.
Janine Di Giovanni
#68. I'd be terrified even now for a Latin kid wanting to be an actor, but back then? Forget it. They must have thought I was going to be working in restaurants and driving cabs for the rest of my life.
John Leguizamo
#69. As a Latin musician, I understand that there are so many places where people don't know who I am. My albums never came out in Australia or Japan.
Prince Royce
#70. 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
#71. I sang in English my whole life; I just happened to decide that I had a passion for Latin music, and I wanted to jump into Latin music first.
Prince Royce
#72. 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
#73. My father was an interpreter for all the Latin American pilots at the naval base. He was very well educated. My mother was a hairdresser who sang every day.
Pepe Serna
#74. Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.
James Boswell
#75. Slice Mango - something that, you know, is a phenomenal drink, but mango is not a flavour that is easily liked by many people in the West. People in Latin America like it. But we do a lot of Mango in India.
Indra Nooyi
#76. Following this logic, to bomb BASF in Ludwigshafen would be to mock the people who bombed BASF in Brazil. The Latin American comrades feel differently. BASF does as well.
Red Army Faction
#77. Recordar: To remember; from the Latin records, to pass back through the heart
Eduardo Galeano
#78. The word enchant comes from the Latin 'incantare', meaning to sing or chant magical words or sounds.
Jonathan Goldman
#79. The word metastasis, used to describe the migration of cancer from one site to another, is a curious mix of meta and stasis - "beyond stillness" in Latin - an
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#80. I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#81. An overall trend of political moderation in Latin America makes for far less interesting headlines, but it also makes for far better lives for our people.
Oscar Arias
#82. When I was very young I was reading a lot of Latin American fiction, which later would be called "boom fiction."
Sandra Cisneros
#83. Sed lex, dura lex," said Balogh. The latin phrase had been hammered into them from the first day of the Academy, and Simon was comming to hate the sound of it -so often was it used as an excuse for acting like monsters.
Cassandra Clare
#84. The Ecuadorean and Latin American press is not like the European or North American press, which has some professional ethics. They are used to being above the law, to blackmail, to extort.
Rafael Correa
#86. Never talk to the cops, I don't speak pig latin.
Lil' Wayne
#87. Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.
Virgil
#88. Those very superficial sensualists and profligates who lead the dance of Latin decadence have not seen, among their dancing girls and their pennies, that the disappearance of symbols was a precursor to the ruin of a people; communities only have abstract reasons for existing...
Josephin Peladan
#89. Larry says it's sandalwood, and it's called that 'cause of the Latin name. They don't make sandals out of it or nothing.
J.L. Merrow
#90. No proper princess would come out looking for dragons," Woraug objected.
"Well I'm not a proper princess then!" Cimorene snapped. "I make cherries jubillee and I volunteer for dragons, and I conjugate Latin verbs
or at least I would if anyone would let me. So there!
Patricia C. Wrede
#91. The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book.
(Introductory lecture as professor of Latin at University College, London, 3 October 1892)
A.E. Housman
#92. Dancing is part of me now! The Latin dances are where my passions are.
Jake Pavelka
#93. There is a satisfactory and available power in every one to learn drawing if he wishes, just as nearly all persons have the power of learning French, Latin or arithmetic, in a decent and useful degree.
John Ruskin
#94. Language Barrier We use Latin terms To make us feel smart and sharp (Nobody else cares)
J.D. Dupuy
#95. I received my high school baccalaureate diploma in Latin and Science in 1928, then my two baccalaureate diplomas in Mathematics and Philosophy in 1929.
Maurice Allais
#96. The roots of the word "compete" are the Latin con petire, which meant "to seek together.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#97. If China's expansion into Africa and Russia's into Latin America and the former Soviet Union are any indication, Silicon Valley's ability to expand globally will be severely limited, if only because Beijing and Moscow have no qualms about blending politics and business.
Evgeny Morozov
#98. One of the reasons why I agreed to do commercials is that they gave me complete freedom. I just had to have the car in it and write a story around it. I wanted to do something serious set in a Latin American country, but again, it was an exercise in style for me.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#99. Well, by the standards of a lot of countries, by Latin American standards, it wasn't so bad.
Paul A. Volcker
#100. The word Universe is made up of two Latin words- uni (meaning "one") and versus (meaning "turned into"). It literally means "one turned into.
Chris Prentiss
