Latin Quotes - Page 15

• Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.

  Augustus

  Farewell, Alive

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• As a Latin man, obviously immigration has been a part of my culture for decades. [I] grew up understanding what you go through in order to come to this country and searching for that American dream.

  Wilmer Valderrama

  Dream, Country, Men

  Source: www.thehollywoodgossip.com

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• The European powers had been anxious to see the United States become embroiled in a civil war and eventually break into two smaller and weaker nations. That would pave the way for their further colonization of Latin American without fear of the Americans being able to enforce the Monroe Doctrine.

  G. Edward Griffin

  War, Two, United States

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• Today we find many actors, they are Latin, they are Hispanic, they are living in the Unites States, they are American, but very rarely you find them in a lead role.

  Sonia Braga

  Roles, Actors, Today

  "Q&A: Sonia Braga plays the role of her life at 66". Associated Press Interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. December 2, 2016.

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• Miami, which has already aired, has this wonderful blend of Caribbean culture and Latin American culture and Southern American culture (talking about fried chicken). All those combine to make for a very very interesting array of ingredients, restaurants, and the chefs that come there. It also has great seafood, not to mention the glorious citrus that's there. And all those things inform what you do - and they should.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Talking, Interesting, Southern

  "'Tangy, Tart, Hot & Sweet': Padma's Passport to Flavors". Interview With Brad Thomas Parsons, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 27, 2007.

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• Inspire (from the Latin inspirare) means to breathe life into another.

  Stephen Covey

  Mean, Inspire, Breathe

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.

  Edward Abbey

  Government, America, Long

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.57, RosettaBooks

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• English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.

  Edward Sapir

  Language, Accepted, Diplomacy

  Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1970). “Culture, Language and Personality”, p.50, Univ of California Press

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• Where there is unity, there is the victory.

  Publilius Syrus

  Unity, Victory

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• In Latin America in general, and Cuba in particular, poets have been the inspiration behind struggles for independence, struggles for freedom of all sorts.

  Margarita Engle

  Struggle, Inspiration, America

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• Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Reality, America, Surrealism

  "The Yellow Trolley Car in Barcelona, and Other Visions" by William Kennedy, www.theatlantic.com. January 1973.

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• I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we crowbar our way in.

  John Leguizamo

  Artist, Doors, Opening Up

  The New York Times, July 14, 1991.

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• I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me too pretentious, too narrow. Prose is more open, popular.

  Blaise Cendrars

  Pretentious, Used, Trans

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• The white man knows what a revolution is. He knows that the Black Revolution is worldwide in scope and in nature. The Black Revolution is sweeping Asia, is sweeping Africa, is rearing its head in Latin America. The Cuban Revolution - that's a revolution. They overturned the system. Revolution is in Asia, revolution is in Africa, and the white man is screaming because he sees revolution in Latin America. How do you think he'll react to you when you learn what a real revolution is?

  Malcolm X

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.

  Fidel Castro

  Afros, Nations, Latin American

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• How can you have a world of today where India is not represented in the Security Council; Japan, the second contributor, is not there; the whole continent of Africa, soon to be 54 countries, don't have a single permanent seat; and Latin America is absent? It's not realistic.

  Kofi Annan

  Country, America, Japan

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• When you have difficult issues on the table for discussion, then sometimes for Africa you may have Burundi or Gambia representing them on the Security Council; and then for Latin America you may have a country like Costa Rica, which is a wonderful country but they don't have the same weight as others from the other regions. And sometimes they get bullied. Sometimes their capitals come under lots of pressure to take a position.

  Kofi Annan

  Country, America, Issues

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• Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.

  James Boswell

  Should Have, Drs, Said

  James Boswell, John Wilson Croker (1831). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides: In Five Volumes”, p.384

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• How can there be such anger in the minds of the gods?

  Virgil

  Mind

  "The Aeneid".

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• Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand the wanderings of the heavens and foretell the rising of stars. But you, Roman, remember to rule the peoples with power (these will be your arts); impose the habit of peace, spare the vanquished and war down the proud!

  Virgil

  Fashion, Art, Stars

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• What a lot of work it was to found the Roman race.

  Virgil

  Race, Found, Working It

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• If only Jupiter would restore me those bygone years.

  Virgil

  Years, Jupiter, Ifs

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• While I am sane I shall compare nothing to the joy of a friend.

  Horace

  Joy, Compare, Sane

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• Once I spoke about this subject among a group of English intellectuals. One of them was a professor on Roman Law at one of the leading British universities. I asked him,what was the official language of the Byzantine Empire? He said, maybe sometime in the sixth or the seventh century.The Justinian Codex, the rule of law in the Byzantine Empire which was produced by Emperor Justinian, it was written in Latin.And he looked at me ,he knew that I knew already that the only original copy was found in the beginning of the sixteenth century.

  Garry Kasparov

  Law, Groups, Byzantine

  Source: www.timothytaylor.ca

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• I didn't ever consider poetry the province exclusively of English and American literature and I discovered a great amount in reading Polish poetry and other Eastern European poetry and reading Russian poetry and reading Latin American and Spanish poetry and I've always found models in those other poetries of poets who could help me on my path.

  Edward Hirsch

  Reading, Path, Literature

  Source: bigthink.com

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