Latin Quotes

“Alis volat propriis”

— motto state of Oregon

Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I'm Latin - we start young, honey!

— Zoe Saldana

Always the same thing.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Ite, inflammate omnia.”

— Ignatius of Loyola

There is no 'generic' Latina.

— Tanya Saracho

Optional is latin for 'Be There'.

— Darryl Sutter

I want to live, and die with you.

— Horace

A God in the hand is worth two in the bush.

— Frederick Buechner

We Latin women are liberated from the neck up, not the neck down.

— Cristina Saralegui

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

— Augustus

“If you don’t speak Greek, how do you know if it’s all Greek to you?”

— Jarod Kintz

Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin.

— Juvenal

I am not in any way opposed to medieval studies (or for that matter Latin).

— Charles Clarke

The difficulty of being a Latin kid, a Latin man in this country [U.S].

— John Leguizamo

I went to school at a place that also shaped my life, Boston Latin School.

— Nat Hentoff

I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.

— Stephen Leacock

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

— Fidel Castro

I'm pan-Latino, or whatever that phrase is. It's not a sexy phrase, but it is a sexy, cool thing. That's how I…

— Stephanie Beatriz

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

— Eva Mendes

With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.

— Lytton Strachey

The love of the game and the way I play comes from my family, the Latin side more than anything.

— Nolan Arenado

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

— Georgie Anne Geyer

I like to think of power back in its Latin root, its meaning comes from posse - to be able.

— Frances Moore Lappé

Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

No," Frank said. "I'm only a centurion." Jason cursed in Latin. "He means he can't control a whole legion. He's not of…

— Rick Riordan

Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless…

— Madeline Zima

How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“A Roman centurion walks into a bar and orders a martinus. The bartender says, "Don't you mean a martini?" The centurion answers,…

— Harlan Wolff

When I was growing up, I was as socially outcast as any nerd could possibly be. I was in the chess club,…

— Chris Hardwick

I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me too pretentious,…

— Blaise Cendrars

A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The…

— George Orwell

Nothing exceptional [would happen to the world under a Hillary Clinton's presidency] - things would stay the same: sponsorship of "Color" or…

— Andre Vltchek

We need to understand that we need to get the work-life balance better for both men and women - by men taking…

— Mary Robinson

It was shameful that, after Haiti, Colombia was the second most unequal country in Latin America. But we've achieved some things; the…

— Juan Manuel Santos

Industrialized countries have disproportionately more cancers than countries with little or no industry (after adjusting for age and population size). One half…

— Sandra Steingraber

People always say that music is a universal language. It was very, very true. We could show up anywhere with any people…

— Jherek Bischoff

Mister Dresden," he said. "And Miss Rodriguez, I believe. I didn't realize you were an art collector." "I am the foremost collector…

— Jim Butcher

A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in…

— James Fenton