Latin Quotes · Page 21

Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.

— Quintus Ennius

“And once he had got really drunk on wine, Then he would speak no language but Latin.”

— Geoffrey Chaucer

I think I'm representing a new generation of Latinos - bilingual, bicultural people.

— Genesis Rodriguez

I'm what is known as perimenopausal. "Peri", some of you may know, is a Latin prefix meaning 'SHUT YOUR FLIPPIN' PIE HOLE'.

— Celia Rivenbark

To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina…

— Billie Burke

I embrace my Latina background because I know that by doing so we will continue to break down stereotypes that may exist…

— Eve Torres

I'm so proud to be a Latina. Growing up and being Latina and growing up with my father and getting to do…

— Nikki Bella

Latin Americans are all too familiar with the boom and bust cycles associated with economic populism.

— Arancha Gonzalez

Every real nation is a people of a common blood and descended from the same ancestors. A nation - from the Latin…

— Sam Francis

How can you have a world of today where India is not represented in the Security Council; Japan, the second contributor, is…

— Kofi Annan

I admire them for making their way up and opening new opportunities for other Latin newcomers. Latinos have come a long way…

— Roselyn Sanchez

I'm a natural blonde. But when I started acting, I would go to auditions and they didn't know where to put me…

— Sofia Vergara

You grow up Latin in this country and you're a third class citizen from the word go, and so you have to…

— John Leguizamo

I wanted to know if the 'Iliad' in the original was as relevant and contemporary as it was in translation. I then…

— Caroline Lawrence

Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's…

— J. August Richards

Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the '60s, the Latin American dictatorships in…

— Naomi Wolf

I am a teller of stories...a weaver of dreams. I can dance, sing, and in the right weather stand on my head.…

— Anthony Minghella

Haiti was founderd by a righteous revolution in 1804 and became the first black republic. It was the first country to break…

— Paul Farmer

At first critics classified authors as Ancients, that is to say, Greek and Latin authors, and Moderns, that is to say, every…

— W. H. Auden

Wherever Mantle went in the great metropolis - Danny's Hideaway, the Latin Quarter, the '21' Club, the Stork Club, El Morocco, Toots…

— Jane Leavy

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

— Havelock Ellis

The term power comes from the Latin posse- to do, to be able, to change, to influence or effect. To have power…

— Al Gini

For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks…

— Arthur Rimbaud

I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is,…

— Lord Chesterfield

The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.

— Carlos Fuentes

The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America.

— Henry A. Wallace

My Latin heritage does inform me in a very real way - I walked through the world differently than Natalie Wood did.

— Rachel Zegler

What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.

— Robert Burns

When English football started to integrate more with European football, England started to share the Latin culture more.

— Mauricio Pochettino

“VI VERI VENIVERSUM VIVUS VICI. By the Power of Truth, I, while living, have Conquered the Universe. ”

— Alan Moore

It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here.

— Ruben Blades

I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.

— Bianca Jagger

I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned…

— Eduardo Galeano

Doctors cure the more serious diseases with harsh remedies. Curtius Medici graviores morbos asperis remediis curant

— Quintus Curtius Rufus

“At 12, still digesting every non-religious book he could get his hands on, he memorized a Latin vocabulary book.”

— Sam Wellman

“If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world.”

— Heinrich Heine

I thought one only had to speak Latin through one's nose and bite off the end.

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

I want to write my own eulogy, and I want to write it in Latin. It seems only fitting to read a…

— Anonymous

“ ridendo dicere severum . (tr. Through what is laughable say what is somber.)”

— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I love all the Latin dances. I love all the upbeat, salsa, cha-cha, samba dances. I just love the music - and…

— Cheryl Burke