Latin Quotes · Page 8

I know that people think of me in terms of Latin music and that's wonderful, that's my heritage, that's who I am,…

— Gloria Estefan

Latin is an international language.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Our responsibility as Christians makes us tremble. The northern hemisphere, the developed area of the world, the 20% who possess 80% of…

— Hélder Câmara

I talk to everyone, but most of the people I hang out with are Latin.

— Manny Machado

A couple of years ago I picked up New Yorker writer Alma Guillermoprieto's "The Heart That Bleeds," which is reportage from Latin…

— Stephen Greenblatt

Other people's things are more pleasing to us, and ours to other people. -Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent

— Publilius Syrus

But still, I’d be darned if I was going to be one of those Americans who stomp around Italy barking commands in…

— Barbara Kingsolver

When you have difficult issues on the table for discussion, then sometimes for Africa you may have Burundi or Gambia representing them…

— Kofi Annan

I'm from East Sheen, I went to public school where I learned Latin at the age of nine, and certain expectations were…

— Tom Hardy

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

I'm very much inspired by the Latin music, especially the romantic boleros. Not that when I sit to write a play I…

— Nilo Cruz

I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I was conscious of being wordy as a child. I was a terrible talker. I memorised the Latin names of flowers at…

— Simon Schama

Today we find many actors, they are Latin, they are Hispanic, they are living in the Unites States, they are American, but…

— Sonia Braga

[Latin] allows you to adore words, take them apart and find out where they came from.

— Dr. Seuss

Language changes. If it does not change, like Latin it dies. But we need to be aware that as our language changes,…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.) ”

— René Descartes

The United States has means to wound Latin American countries deeply, chiefly by altering trade policies to cut imports in ways that…

— Stephen Kinzer

I do not want [photography] explained to me in terms of... formulas, learned, but so hopelessly unsatisfying. I do not want my…

— Jacob August Riis

The Latin root of the word 'politics' means 'of the people.' Politics is about something bigger than electoral politics; in that sense,…

— Marianne Williamson

We discovered this halfway through the process. When we started making the film there were some lines of dialogue in Portuguese, but…

— Alex Abreu

'Everything beautiful occurs when the body / is suspended,' Helena Mesa quotes a performance artist who hangs his own pierced body in…

— Mark Doty

I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and…

— Sarah Fielding

It's hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning…

— Janine di Giovanni

Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence.

— Noam Chomsky