Working with the Latin language is pretty powerful. Working with a language that is not spoken vernacularly is intense. — Eyvind Kang Copy Share Image
English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin,… — Bill Bryson 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
Latin! The language of God! Or perhaps He speaks Hebrew? I suppose that's more likely and it will make things rather awkward… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
Throughout the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, Latin was the language of learning and international communication. But in the early modern period,… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“The ambition to secure an education was most praiseworthy and encouraging. The idea, however, was too prevalent that, as soon as one… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“It never occurs to most of us .. that the question 'what is the truth' is no real question (being irrelative to… — William James Copy Share Image
“disputing about those already made. I therefore never answered M. Nollet, and the event gave me no cause to repent my silence;… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Sanskrit, an ancient Indian language that became the sacred tongue of Hindu ritual, and the Greek and Latin languages, as well as… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“You said somewhere that you would like to write in one of the Nordic languages because they have more vowels, and vowels… — Luis Fernando Verissimo Copy Share Image