I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a word without… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. Astronaut suggests 'a sailor in space.' Chimponaut suggests… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Curitiba is not a paradise. We have all the problems that most Latin American cities have. We have slums. We have the… — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Being able to get our foot in the door actually starts with people who are not Latinx giving us the opportunity to… — Rachel Zegler Copy Share Image
The eastern part of the Roman Empire spoke mostly Greek, and the western parts spoke mostly Latin. So very soon, you begin… — Justo L. Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Latin America wants to decriminalize at least marijuana (maybe more or course;) the US wants to maintain it. An interesting story. There… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Latin names, but most people invent… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and stable basis and thus enjoy… — Augustus Copy Share Image
Help does not mean to intervene. I will not meddle if I am not invited to do so. But if I can… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
The only thing to be said for air travel is speed. It makes possible travel on a scale unimaginable before our present… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
We have seen how Zika has become a very serious problem in Brazil, in other parts of Latin America, in this hemisphere.… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a… — James Callis Copy Share Image
“Do you know who 'twas that first knew our Lord had caused Himself to be born? 'Twas the cock; he saw the… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
“Latin terminology was subsequently absorbed into English and may seem more natural to us today than Cranmer’s translation does. For example, in… — Gerald L. Bray Copy Share Image
I was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and am a product of a family that were jazz aficionados and also very interested in… — Jack Waters Copy Share Image
Brazil has a lot of issues that are similar to a lot of countries in Latin America, but the dominant issue Brazil… — Morena Baccarin Copy Share Image
There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
It is very unusual for someone from Latin American society to openly stand by his homosexuality. In my hometown, there are still… — Orlando Cruz Copy Share Image
Since my high school years, I have been interested in history, especially in Roman history, a topic on which I have read… — George Emil Palade Copy Share Image
A white leftist Mexican activist isn't the same in the media as the son of a farmer in Guerrero, they aren't worth… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
You know, there is a long tradition in the U.S. of, um, promoting elections up to the point that you get an… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
Cuba cannot go back to capitalism; we know all the tragic experience that it has generated for Latin America and the world.… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
Latino people have come up to me and said they were motivated to become a lawyer because they saw me play one… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Today Eratosthenes' method [of calculating the circumference of the earth] seems almost banal... yet it is inaccessible to prescientific civilizations, and in… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
“60. The use of the Latin language customary in a considerable portion of the Church is a manifest and beautiful sign of… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Most governments in the United States in a hundred years have not respected the peoples of Latin America. They have sponsored coup… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I've built a career. I think… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Get up early and go to the local produce markets. In Latin America and Asia, those are usually great places to find… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
When you arrive really inside the discussion of race, practically they institute a Mexican-ness, a Latin-ness, a racial community that just isn't… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
“Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur." If any man cannot feel the power… — Horace Copy Share Image
The final hour of colonialism has struck, and millions of inhabitants of Africa, Asia and Latin America rise to meet a new… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
I grew up in England and we spent most of the time on Latin and Greek and very little on science, and… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I could have been a Judge, but I never had the Latin for the judgin'. I never had it, so I'd had… — Peter Cook Copy Share Image
Our chemical and other manufacturing concerns are all too often ready to let the Germans have Latin American markets, provided the American… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
It's hard for the American industry to see a Latin actor playing something that is not a gardener or someone in a… — Jordi Molla Copy Share Image
The revolution in Nicaragua was the first of its kind to be accomplished with the mass support of Christians, a fact that… — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
Above the pyramid on the great seal of the United States it says in Latin: "God has favored our undertaking." God will… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
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