Latin Quotes - Page 12

• I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Ignorance, America, Population

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• Every real nation is a people of a common blood and descended from the same ancestors. A nation - from the Latin word meaning to be born - can have no other meaning.

  Sam Francis

  Real, Blood, People

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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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• 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've done a bit of Latin in my time...but I can control it.

  Eddie Izzard

  Funny, Done, Comedy

  "Eddie Izzard: Definite Article". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1996.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it.

  Rosie Perez

  Stars, Trying, Should

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

  Sanford I. Weill

  Thinking, Discipline, Logic

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• What happens is all these things we're seeing – campylobacter, E coli, mad cow, listeria, salmonella, that weren't even in the lexicon 30 years ago – that is the industrial paradigm exceeding its efficiency. So these Latin squiggly words that we're learning to say – bovine spongiform encephalopathy – are nature's language screaming to us: ENOUGH! And the question then is: what will it take for us to listen? And my contention is that Wall Street is still wearing conquistador mentality and uniforms, and nobody is listening to the pleadings of nature saying: 'Enough.'

  Joel Salatin

  Wall, Years, Mad

  "Interview: Joel Salatin" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2010.

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• Haiti was founderd by a righteous revolution in 1804 and became the first black republic. It was the first country to break the chains of slavery, the first to force Emperor Napoleon to retreat, and the only to aid Simón Bolívar in his struggle to liberate the indigenous people and slaves of Latin America from their colonial oppressors.

  Paul Farmer

  Country, Struggle, America

  Paul Farmer (2012). “Haiti After the Earthquake”, p.11, PublicAffairs

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• Oh my, I've just discovered what science shows us about our humble but spectacular place in the universe, and I have to say: it is thrilling and mind-boggling beyond all imaginings! It makes the Bible so puny and uninspired, and certainly less poetic, by comparison. I'm terribly sorry. I sincerely misunderstood so much. I almost wish there were a God so I could be punished for all the suffering I have obliviously caused in the world. But since there will be no cosmic punishment for me, I will spend what time I have left working in a family planning clinic in Latin America. Good day.

  Julia Sweeney

  Sorry, Humble, Good Day

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• The Latin American has no tribe to fall back on, as the African does, no reliable judiciary to defend his rights as the European does, no social ideal or sacred constitution as the North American does, no pervasive mythology to soften life as it does in Asia, and no even an ideology to subscribe to, as does the Russian or Chinese. Without wealth, what is there left to him but his manhood, to be flaunted and defended at every occasion?

  Ted Simon

  Fall, Rights, Chinese

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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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• Optional is latin for 'Be There'.

  Darryl Sutter

  Optional

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