It was a competitive examination [in Boston Latin School]. Poor kids, Brahmans, middle-class kids. The masters, as the teachers were called, didn't… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too. — Benicio Del Toro Copy Share Image
My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
He [Hugo Chavez] put poverty at the heart of political debate. Rightly so, given the country's immense inequality and poverty. He invested… — Rory Carroll Copy Share Image
It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
Is it a man walking on the beach, winking at the girls and looking for going to bed? Is it someone who… — Antonio Banderas Copy Share Image
People often find it easier to refute a fake extreme opponent than a more cautious real one, so they knock down the… — Madsen Pirie 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
We need a new Latin American policy that is bold - different. We need to focus on building civil society, focus on… — Mel Martinez Copy Share Image
The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America. — Walter Salles Copy Share Image
How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
In conversations and visits with friends from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe I am often struck by… — Ed McBain Copy Share Image
My Latin roots are very strong. All my life, because I'm blonde and blue-eyed, people who aren't Hispanic can't believe I am.… — Cameron Diaz Copy Share Image
To read" actually comes from the Latin reri "to calculate, to think" which is not only the progenitor of "read" but of… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
Observermanship is the art of giving the impression that you are with it even though you don't know Latin very well. — Robert McAfee Brown Copy Share Image
The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America. — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also. — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one… — Charles Baudelaire 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
They didn't need to be specifically South American or Latin American. Instead we discovered we were talking about human beings in general.… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
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