Book Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists…

— George Andrew Olah

Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose…

— Robert Fitzgerald

The first book in most languages of the world has been the Bible!!

— Glen Rambharack

The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which…

— Washington Irving

I studied Latin in high school, and I was reading stuff from Cicero. And that signal took a few thousand years to get to…

— Seth Shostak

Throughout the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, Latin was the language of learning and international communication. But in the early modern period, it was…

— Michael Dirda

Latin is an international language.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into Spanish.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

“What we face is not a loss of books but the loss of a world. As in Alexandria after Aristotle’s time, or the universities…

— Matthew Battles

I actually only speak English and Latin. Medieval philosophy was my major, so we pretty much had to study in Latin.

— Dakin Matthews

Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin.

— Bruce Sterling

I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless I was…

— Madeline Zima