A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in…

I once found myself in Paris, Texas, possibly the most curious juxtaposition of place names in America.

— Neil Macdonald

“I think all artists struggle to represent the geometry of life in their own way, just like writers deal with archetypes. There are only…

— Henry Mosquera

In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.

— Maynard James Keenan

Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by Greek, by…

— Amos Oz

“If you ask me if I know how to speak Latin, I’ll say, “No, it’s all Greek to me.”

— Jarod Kintz

To later Romans Ennius was the personification of the spirit of early Rome; by them he was called "The Father of Roman Poetry." We…

— Quintus Ennius

“[English] fails me utterly when I attempt to describe what I love about Greek, that language innocent of all quirks and cranks; a language…

— Donna Tartt

The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. Astronaut suggests 'a sailor in space.' Chimponaut suggests 'a chimpanzee…

— Mary Roach

Demon mean knowledge in Greek, especially about the material world. Science means knowledge in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look…

— Carl Sagan

The concept of an "architect" is one of the oldest professions in the world. Whereas, some professions, such as a "lawyer", have their roots…

— Santiago Calatrava

Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving winged feet…

— Havelock Ellis

“Pulvis et umbra sumus. ( We are but dust and shadow. )”

— Horace

“Often we have three terms for the same thing--one Anglo-Saxon, one French, and one clearly absorbed from Latin or Greek. The Anglo-Saxon word is…

— Henry Hitchings

Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of…

— Ezra Pound