Latin Quotes - Page 10

• I wanted to take part in the liberation of even a small piece of enslaved Latin America.

  Che Guevara

  America, Pieces, Liberation

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• In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Writing, School

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Every passing year brings us more past futures. Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin. It's counterproductive to blither on about "the" future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be.

  Bruce Sterling

  Dark, Past, Years

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• 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 lie and do not be idle.

  Evo Morales

  Lying, Law, America

  "'Capitalism Has Only Hurt Latin America'". Interview with Jens Glüsing, Hans Hoyng, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2006.

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• 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 in my work. I do it by making them beautiful, sensual.

  Narciso Rodriguez

  Beautiful, Men, Thinking

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• 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 comes a Latin grammar, and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one who, opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Sunday, Boys

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.21, Рипол Классик

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• Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?

  Larry Wall

  Greek, Intuition, Three

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• 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 or are done.

  J. L. Austin

  Austin, Done, Models

  "A Plea for Excuses". Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 1956.

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• Latin Americans have gotten tired of the Washington consensus - a neoliberalism that has aggravated misery and poverty.

  Hugo Chavez

  Tired, Neoliberalism, Poverty

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• When you arrive really inside the discussion of race, practically they institute a Mexican-ness, a Latin-ness, a racial community that just isn't true. So, we know who are the people that have the majority of power, access and privileges in Mexico, and they are white Mexicans.

  Bocafloja

  Race, White, People

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.

  Alvaro Uribe

  War, Dictator, Reviews

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• I believe in terms of the work that I do, in establishing dialogue about race relations in Latin America, steps on one of the most relevant themes today.

  Bocafloja

  Believe, Race, America

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• 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 country. We are entering times of rebellion and change. There are those who believe that destiny rests on the knees of the gods; but the truth is that it confronts the conscience of man with a burning challenge.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Country, Believe, Destiny

  Eduardo Galeano (1997). “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”, p.261, NYU Press

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• CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do "me"?

  Ambrose Bierce

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.46, University of Georgia Press

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• By the year 2000, I want to be the first Latin musician to play on the moon.

  Tito Puente

  Moon, Years, Play

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Paris, hours in the café, a certain spirit of rebellion, one side a bit too stubborn, the sea, the true, in Bretagne, the walking in Provence, the taste, the passion for literature, the libraries, the beautiful editions, remaking the world in a set of hours around a table and a bottle of wine. Talking without really saying nothing, just for the pleasure of talking. The museums, the theatres, the elegance, the delicacy, the heritage of the Illustration, a humanistic philosophy. The balance we got between a nordic rigor and a latin savoir-vivre, the insolence and the freedom.

  Clemence Poesy

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Wine

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• 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 English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time.

  George Saintsbury

  Writing, Men, Long

  George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.27, tredition

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• FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person - a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose his case.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Money, Character, Lawyer

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.86, University of Georgia Press

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• I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America.

  Ruben Blades

  New York, Views, America

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• I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought they would be or seemed to be.

  Suzanne Farrell

  People, Interesting, Would Be

  "Suzanne Farrell: Ballerina Extraordinaire". Interview, www.achievement.org.

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• I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds.

  Ruben Blades

  New York, Thinking, Numbers

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• 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 not fair because that is generalizing.

  Ricky Martin

  Country, America, Drug

  "Ricky Martin Embraces Arab Youth". Ricky Martin's address to the youngsters from 16 mainly Arab countries at a youth conference in the Middle East, www.cbsnews.com. July 25, 2005.

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• The word 'comfort' comes from the Latin words for 'with' and 'strength' and originally meant operating from a position of power.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Position Of Power, Comfort, Position

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• The Latin proverb, homo homini lupus — man is a wolf to man—... is a libel on the wolf, which is a gentle animal with other wolves.

  Geoffrey Gorer

  Animal, Men, Libel

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• 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 as forcing modern residents of England to wear laurels and togas.

  Steven Pinker

  Writing, Editing, Togas

  Steven Pinker (1994). “The Language Instinct”, William Morrow & Company

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