Latin Quotes · Page 22

Nicaragua was destabilizing Central America, meaning moving in a direction the US didn't like. So Nicaragua was crushed.

— Noam Chomsky

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

I want to represent all the Latin people. I want to do this for the rest of my life.

— Anthony Gonzalez

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

— Nolan Arenado

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

— Lytton Strachey

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

— Eva Mendes

When I was very young I was reading a lot of Latin American fiction, which later would be called "boom fiction."

— Sandra Cisneros

Playing in New York is special to me because you are surrounded by so many communities and a strong Latin community, including…

— Robinson Cano

There's no way we could play a country song as well as a country band or a Latin song as well as…

— Mike Gordon

There are two sides of me, the bachata/tropical Latin side and the English pop as well. They're both equally important, so I'll…

— Prince Royce

What makes Harlem special is that at any given time, food seekers can not only find food deeply rooted in Southern, Latin…

— Marcus Samuelsson

A Latin phrase says: De mortuis nil nisi bonum, Speak no ill of the dead. But it is better to say this…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

You've got a new Spanish-language album out now ["90 Millas," released in September of 2007], and the single ["No Llores"] is #1…

— Gloria Estefan

The revolutions of my century, the 20th century - the Soviet revolution, or the Chinese, or the revolutions that were fomented in…

— Stephane Hessel

We have a pride of who we are as Latinos, regardless if we're Puerto Rican, Dominican, Venezuelan, and we're very proud of…

— Juan Luis Guerra

There's the old saying that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is the definition of insanity.…

— Jacob G. Hornberger

but do i need to say anything?" sophie asked. "do i need to learn any words?" "like what?" saint-germain said. "well, when…

— Michael Scott

Jorge Luis Borges had the soapbox and the authority to complain about this myopic understanding of the duty of Latin American writers,…

— Adam Morris

I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and processes. It…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

There are stories that are by and for Latin Americans, where a certain amount of cultural fluency is expected, where we can…

— Daniel Alarcon

I think a part of it was the way my parents raised me. I think that's part of being raised in a…

— Becky G

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

— Donna Tartt

It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which…

— Henry David Thoreau

The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.

— Bianca Jagger

I get a lot of credit for having succeeded as a Latina in this world, and I am not that. I appreciate…

— Cameron Esposito

The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Latin men are the most passionate men in the world - they may not be the most aggressive, but they are very…

— Brooke Burke

He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good…

— Philippa Gregory

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

Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

— Horace

There are no regions in the world as reciprocally integrated as Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe.

— Federica Mogherini

Just about every Latin American country has sent players to the big leagues, from the Dominican Republic to Costa Rica.

— Cheech Marin

No writer or speaker who ignores the roots of Latin derivatives is secure from egregious error.

— Stuart Sherman

Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.

— Ezra Pound

One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to…

— Peter Brodie

The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.

— E. V. Lucas

If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.

— Anonymous