Latin Quotes - Page 17

• In many parts of the world, including the Arab world, the Latin American world, and even parts of the Western world, there is a tradition of writers being quite engaged. Particularly in the Arab world you have had very, very strong traditions of literature and poetry and most of the writers have been deeply committed to the cause of the Arab nation.

  Tariq Ali

  Strong, Literature, World

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If it is an element of liberation for Latin America, I believe that it should have demonstrated that. Until now, I have not been aware of any such demonstration. The IMF performs an entirely different function: precisely that of ensuring that capital based outside of Latin America controls all of Latin America.

  Che Guevara

  Believe, America, Should Have

  Radio Rivadavia of Argentina Interview, November 03, 1959.

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• It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Children, Learning, Greek

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.2005, e-artnow

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• Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.

  Alphonse Karr

  Education, Art, Flower

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• The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.

  Mario Benedetti

  Country, Real, America

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• In Miami, there's a Latin flavor, and I just love every bit of it.

  Ryan Guzman

  Flavor, Miami, Bits

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

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• Yiddish is the voice of exile, the tongue of ghettos, but I'll shed a tear when it joins ancient Greek and dead Latin. For gossip and insult, you can't beat Yiddish.

  Linda Barnes

  Ghetto, Insults You, Voice

  Linda Barnes (2015). “Cold Case”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• 'Everything beautiful occurs when the body / is suspended,' Helena Mesa quotes a performance artist who hangs his own pierced body in the air. Mesa's poems are artfully suspended between lyric and narrative, between humans and animals, between Latin America and the U.S., between desire and the difficulty of its fulfillment. Horse Dance Underwater is an inventive, musical, and powerful debut.

  Mark Doty

  Beautiful, Horse, Powerful

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• In America there is really very little knowledge of the literature of the rest of the world. Of the literature of Latin America, yes, But that's not all that different in inspiration from that of America, or of Europe. One must go further. You don't even have to go too far in terms of geography - you can start with the Native Americans and listen to their poetry.

  Chinua Achebe

  Inspiration, Native American, Europe

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “There Was a Country: A Memoir”, p.51, Penguin

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• Today Eratosthenes' method [of calculating the circumference of the earth] seems almost banal... yet it is inaccessible to prescientific civilizations, and in all of Antiquity not a single Latin author succeeded in stating it coherently.

  Lucio Russo

  Civilization, Earth, Today

  "The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why it Had to Be Reborn". Book by Lucio Russo, 2004.

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• To the Latin, cynicism and middle age are synonymous. Look at our politicians - they move through their careers from left to center to right, like the hands of a clock.

  Helen McCloy

  Moving, Hands, Careers

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• What was said by the Latin poet of labor--that it conquers all things--is much more true when applied to impudence.

  Henry Fielding

  Conquer, Poet, Said

  Henry Fielding, William Ernest Henley (1903). “The Complete Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: The history of the life of the late Mr.Jonathan Wild and A journey from this world to the next, &c”

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• Thanks to my memory, which enabled me to quote Latin and to discuss Greek and Roman civilization, it became obvious to some of my colleagues in other fields that I was interested in things outside mathematics. This lead quickly to very pleasant relationships.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Memories, Civilization, Greek

  "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 125), 1991.

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• Language changes. If it does not change, like Latin it dies. But we need to be aware that as our language changes, so does our theology change, particularly if we are trying to manipulate language for a specific purpose. That is what is happening with our attempts at inclusive language, which thus far have been inconclusive and unsuccessful.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Trying, Doe, Needs

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• I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.

  Hermann Hesse

  Book, School, Towns

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• Growing up in Miami, I had all these great, strong influences. Being Cuban and the Latin influence, but also the strong hip-hop influence. I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there.

  Kat Dahlia

  Strong, Growing Up, Party

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• We've got a lot of pressure going. This is for my Latin counterpart.

  Bobby Bonilla

  Sports, Pressure, Counterparts

  Bobby Bonilla during MLB World Series: Indians v Marlins Press Conference, www.asapsports.com. October 17, 1997.

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• The goal of Latin American unity is highly ephemeral. Each country has its own set of goals and very different sets of leaders.

  Riordan Roett

  Country, Goal, Leader

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• When it comes to cyber conflicts between, say, America and China or even a Middle Eastern nation, an African nation, a Latin American nation, a European nation, we have more to lose.

  Edward Snowden

  America, Conflict, Middle

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• President Obama's been reaching out to Iran, reaching out to Cuba, reaching out to Latin America. The only place he can't seem to be able to reach out to: Texas. ... Despite Governor Rick Perry talking about how Texas could secede from the Union if it wanted to, 75 per cent of the people who live there want to stay in the United States. Of course they want to stay. I mean, after spending all that time and effort sneaking across the border to get here, why would they want to leave?

  Jay Leno

  Mean, America, Texas

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• If you don't have that science and technology and brains as an input, as you don't have in large parts of Latin America, if you don't focus your education on that, if you don't find your 10,000 best scientists, but you do find your 10,000 best soccer players, the consequences are, you become a World Cup Champion in Soccer, like Brazil, but you don't become Korea, which earned 1/5 of what a Mexican did in 1975 and today earns five times more.

  Juan Enriquez

  Soccer, Technology, Player

  Source: bigthink.com

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• One thing you can't help noticing in South America and in Latin culture, generally, is how nice people are. Although when I went back to Spain - my mother lived in Spain and both my brothers lived there - after the Uruguay trip, I thought, "Oh great, Hispanic people." But they weren't nearly as nice as the Uruguayans. They're quite proud and pissed off, the Spaniards.

  Martin Amis

  Mother, Brother, Nice

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm very much inspired by the Latin music, especially the romantic boleros. Not that when I sit to write a play I listen to boleros. But I think it's part of my DNA, it's part of my upbringing. I grew up in a house where this is the kind of music my parents used to listen to. This is the kind of music I would even hear in my neighborhood. I think that sort of romanticism is part of the culture.

  Nilo Cruz

  Writing, Thinking, House

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• The village is the place to which the roads tend, a sort of expansion of the highway, as a lake of a river.... The word is from the Latin villa, which together with via, a way, or more anciently ved and vella, Varro derives from veho, to carry, because the villa is the place to and from which things are carried.... Hence, too, the Latin word vilis and our vile, also villain. This suggests what kind of degeneracy villagers are liable to. They are wayworn by the travel that goes by and over them, without traveling themselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Lakes, Civilization

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• One of the things that really worries me, in part about Mexico, in part about Latin America, and in part about the Hispanic population in the U.S. and Canada. It's the lack of awareness of this whole science world.

  Juan Enriquez

  America, Worry, Population

  Source: bigthink.com

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