Latin Quotes - Page 24

• He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?

  Philippa Gregory

  Speaks French, Half, Dozen

  Philippa Gregory (2011). “Philippa Gregory's Tudor Court 6-Book Boxed Set: The Constant Princess, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover, and The Other Queen”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes, when she's out here alone, she can feel the pulse of something bigger, as if all things animate were beating in unison, a glory and a connection that sweeps her out of herself, out of her consciousness, so that nothing has a name, not in Latin, not in English, not in any known language.

  T.C. Boyle

  Names, Pulse, Connections

  T.C. Boyle (2012). “When the Killing's Done”, p.101, A&C Black

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• Recordar: To remember; from the Latin records, to pass back through the heart

  Eduardo Galeano

  Heart, Records, Remember

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• Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phrase it, realizing that if time travel ever became widespread, English grammar was going to have to add a whole new set of tenses to describe reflexive situations - conjugations that would make the French literary tenses and the Latin historical tenses look simple.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Simple, English Grammar, Historical

  Robert A. Heinlein (1959). “The Door Into Summer”, Roc

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• The comics of course, help the movies, because all of the comic fans want to see the movies. And the most amazing thing about it is these movies seem to appeal to young people, to old people, and to people all over the world. They're as popular in China and Latin America as they are here. That's really amazing and gratifying.

  Stan Lee

  America, People, Want

  Source: nerdist.com

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• I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.

  Bianca Jagger

  Thinking, Government, America

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• I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.

  Joseph Addison

  Greek, Mets, Passages

  Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.437

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• Status Quo is Latin for the mess we are in.

  Jack Graham

  Status Quo, Mess

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• One of my less pleasant chores when I was young was to read the Bible from one end to the other. Reading the Bible straight through is at least 70 percent discipline, like learning Latin. But the good parts are, of course, simply amazing. God is an extremely uneven writer, but when He's good, nobody can touch Him.

  John W. Gardner

  Humorous, Reading, Discipline

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• We are a scientific civilization. That means a civilization in which knowledge and its integrity are crucial. Science is only a Latin word for knowledge ... Knowledge is our destiny.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Integrity, Mean, Science

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Atheist, America, Catholic

  "Novel Politics". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. April 30, 2006.

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• It's an honor to represent a Latin culture.

  Gio Gonzalez

  Honor, Culture

  "Answer Man: Gio Gonzalez talks getting traded, Cy Young, Strasburg shutdown and the Chevy Geo". Interview with David Brown, www.yahoo.com. October 6, 2012.

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• Sometimes when I get home after a long day, I'll turn on music - I love Latin, disco, and pop - and do my own workout, even if it's a short one. Know a good song to work out to? 'I Will Survive.

  Summer Glau

  Song, Workout, Home

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• The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Years, America, Drug

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• What Jennifer Lopez puts out, it's not Latin music.

  Marc Anthony

  Latin Music, Jennifer

  "Marc Anthony: Don't call it 'Latin music'". www.cnn.com. October 26, 1999.

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• I've never gone for the smooth, suave Latin or French lover. That usually makes me think they're trying to pull one over on me.

  Tricia Helfer

  Thinking, Trying, Gone

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• I happen to think Latinas, Latin women, are the most beautiful women in the world. So that's what I'm going to draw. I love women from all cultures, of course, but if I was going to deal with any of them, that would be No. 1 for me.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Beautiful, Thinking, Would Be

  "Love And Rockets' Hernandez brothers on 30 years in comics". Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2012.

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• I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Blood, Persons

  Interview with Kay Bonetti, www.missourireview.com. March 1, 1995.

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• We need to understand that we need to get the work-life balance better for both men and women - by men taking on more of those roles of homemaking and child rearing - it's an important area that we still haven't got right. I do worry; it's not just in the United States, it's also in parts of Latin America.

  Mary Robinson

  Children, Men, America

  Source: www.dailymaverick.co.za

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• I'm a first generation American. My mother is Italian and Russian and a lot of other things, and my father is Uruguayan. In fact, my mother's been married twice, and both men were Uruguayan. So I grew up in a very European/Latin American-influenced home.

  Sebastian Arcelus

  Mother, Father, Home

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, School, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.82, Courier Corporation

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• TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source --the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Father, Hymns, Bored

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2526, Delphi Classics

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• What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.

  Robert Burns

  Teaching, School, Names

  Robert Burns, James Currie (1835). “The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings”, p.132

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• They call it the Latin Quarter because nobody there is Latin and nobody has a quarter.

  Will Rogers

  Quarters

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• I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Writing, Thinking, America

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