Latin Quotes

563 Latin quotes by 376 unique authors

I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some countries, we are considered 'losers,' drug traffickers, and that is… — Ricky Martin
The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular. — Timothy Leary
The Latin proverb, homo homini lupus — man is a wolf to man—... is a libel on the wolf, which is a gentle animal with… — Geoffrey Gorer
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much sense… — Steven Pinker
We the undersigned, intend to establish an instruction and training institution which differs from the common elementary schools principally in that it will embrace, outside… — C. F. W. Walther
There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid… — Barbara Amiel
When my neighbor walks the dogs, he performs a ritual act of sacer simplicitas, to use the church Latin: "sacred simplicity." Walking the dog is… — Robert Fulghum
The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in… — Lytton Strachey
But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in… — George Saintsbury
Furthermore, the Latin American nuclear-weapon free zone which is now nearing completion has become in several respects an example which, notwithstanding the different characteristics of… — Alfonso Garcia Robles
In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also in Hindu philosophy,… — Alan Watts
An increase in the relative price of products from the low wage manufacturers in Asia and Latin America will also make those products less attractive… — Martin Feldstein
Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the creative or producing,… — Jacques Maritain
We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not… — Evo Morales
Latin men love Latin women, it is part of the culture, we celebrate women in a very special way and I think that is present… — Narciso Rodriguez
It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen… — J L Austin
Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days? — Larry Wall
Emo means different things to different people. Actually, that's a massive understatement. Emo seems solely to mean different things to different people—Like pig latin or… — Andy Greenwald
I remember really bonding with the first generation kids, the Chinese Canadian kids, and in high school bonding with the Latin kids and the East… — Nelly
When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents. — Alvaro Uribe
We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle… — Penelope Lively
The Latin American cause is about all a social cause: the rebirth of Latin America must start with the overthrow of its masters, country by… — Eduardo Galeano
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become… — Eduardo Galeano
I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture. The stylings of my words are immodest, but… — Julio Iglesias

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