Latin Quotes - Page 9

• Latin life is rich with warmth, family values and history. I want to bring that beauty into American homes.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Home, Want, Life Is

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• Man's respect for knowledge is one of his most peculiar characteristics. Knowledge in Latin is scientia, and science came to be the name of the most respectable kind of knowledge.

  Imre Lakatos

  Men, Names, Peculiar

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• I love Latin women, yet for some reason I always wind up with blondes.

  Chris Kirkpatrick

  Wind, Reason, Latin Women

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• I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.

  Sanford I. Weill

  Thinking, Discipline, Logic

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• [Latin] allows you to adore words, take them apart and find out where they came from.

  Dr. Seuss

  Adore

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• I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.

  Stephen Leacock

  Professors, Ought

  Here Are My Lectures ch. 14 (1938)

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• I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms

  Stephen Stills

  School, Years, America

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• The final hour of colonialism has struck, and millions of inhabitants of Africa, Asia and Latin America rise to meet a new life and demand their unrestricted right to self-determination.

  Che Guevara

  Determination, Self, America

  Ernesto Guevara, David Deutschmann (2003). “Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution”, p.325, Ocean Press

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• Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because weexist at the end of this century. We are not myths of the past, ruins in thejungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims ofintolerance and racism.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Zoos, Past, Government

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• My father's a musician and my mother's a singer. My dad's originally from Brooklyn and he was a Latin percussionist so I've always had instruments around the house. He used to have a show like a 1950s rock and roll show with Little Richard music. They would do doo-wop songs and stuff like that.

  Bruno Mars

  Mother, Song, Dad

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  America, Movement, Liberation

  "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

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• I was struggling to find a way to make evening clothes more deconstructed. I like to think that I translated the Latin concept in a more modern way. I don't think that I was that literal.

  Vera Wang

  Struggle, Thinking, Clothes

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• As minorities, it is always our dream to merge our cultures and showcase to the world the talent that comes from both Latin music and Hip-Hop, .. I hope that together,we can create a new cultural movement that unites these audiences.

  Emilio Estefan

  Dream, Together We Can, Hip Hop

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• I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time I want to keep the sense of proportion. It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object. I want you to keep in training the faculties which would make you, if the need arose, able to put your last ounce of pluck and strength into a contest. But I do not want you to squander these qualities.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Sports, Football, Believe

  Theodore Roosevelt (1995). “A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children”, Random House Incorporated

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• ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wisdom, America, Office

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2504, Delphi Classics

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• As far as a Latin explosion, I'm sorry, I'm the only Latino who's going to say it, but there is no Latin explosion. I'm sorry. Four or five top box office people do not make it an explosion, and it's disgusting to me that people will perceive it that way.

  Rosie Perez

  Sorry, Office, People

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• The peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have common interest and are in the position to support each other in their anti-imperialist and anti-U.S. struggle. As long as Africa and Latin America are not free.

  Kim Il-sung

  Struggle, America, Long

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

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• Poets that lasting marble seek, Must come in Latin or in Greek.

  Edmund Waller

  Greek, Poet, Lasting

  "Of English Verse". Poem by Edmund Waller (1668); later published in George Gilfillan "Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham", 1857.

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• I play video games and watch TV, but there's more to life than that. Faxing and the Internet have created a global community. The kid next door has become the kid in Latin America or Asia.

  Craig Kielburger

  Kids, America, Doors

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• I didn't go to Latin America thinking, 'I'm gonna write a book. This is what I'm gonna do.' I went there to work for UNICEF and to learn.

  Jenna Bush

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• I am interested in garnering the white vote, and the black vote, and the Latin vote, and the Asian vote, and the business vote, and the labor vote.

  Harold Washington

  White, Black, Asian

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• I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English.

  Paz Vega

  Women, Play, Roles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal of Latin to make it go down.

  George Eliot

  People, Awkward, Looks

  George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.51

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• Optional is latin for 'Be There'.

  Darryl Sutter

  Optional

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• Word lessons, in particular the wouldst couldst shouldst have loved kind, were kept up, with much warlike thrashing, until I had committed the whole of French, Latin, and English grammars to memory.

  John Muir

  Memories, English Grammar, Lessons

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.29, The Mountaineers Books

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