Latin Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• 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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• 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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• One that actually relates to all Latin American literature: that is, not every author is interested in being a representative of his or her national culture on the global stage.

  Adam Morris

  Culture, Literature, American Literature

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Jorge Luis Borges was lamenting a variety of Orientalism that was used to measure the alleged authenticity of Argentine and Latin American writers in the midcentury. The Argentine literary tradition was believed by many, including many Argentines, to be concerned with a national imaginary in which the gauchos and the pampas and the tango were fundamental tropes. Borges, in part to legitimize his own Europhilia, correctly pointed out that expecting writers to engage with these romantic nationalist tropes was arbitrary and limiting, a genre that was demonstrative of its own artificiality.

  Adam Morris

  Authenticity, Tradition, Expecting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There were no Latin people on 'Star Trek,' that this was proof that they weren't planning to have us around for the future.

  John Leguizamo

  Stars, People, Planning

  "John Leguizamo: 'Freak,' and proud of it". edition.cnn.com. November 2, 1998.

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• There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Greek, Doubt, Ornaments

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.128, Stanford University Press

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• When I was growing up, I was as socially outcast as any nerd could possibly be. I was in the chess club, I brought D&D stuff to school, I had every game system you could imagine, I spent countless hours at arcades, computer camp, loud presence in the Latin Club. All that stuff.

  Chris Hardwick

  Growing Up, School, Games

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving winged feet toits god of art. Latin is the embodiment of the weighty and concentrated speech which is hammered and pressed and polished into the shape of its perfection, as the ethically minded Romans believed that the soul also should be wrought.

  Havelock Ellis

  Running, Art, Feet

  Havelock Ellis (1915). “Impressions and comments”

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• What a contrast between the stern and desolate poetry of Ossian, and that of Chaucer, and even of Shakespeare and Milton, much more of Dryden, and Pope, and Gray! Our summer of English poetry, like the Greek and Latin before it, seems well advanced towards its fall, and laden with the fruit and foliage of the season, with bright autumnal tints, but soon the winter will scatter its myriad clustering and shading leaves, and leave only a few desolate and fibrous boughs to sustain the snow and rime, and creak in the blasts of age.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Fall, Winter

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.261, Xist Publishing

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• Curitiba is not a paradise. We have all the problems that most Latin American cities have. We have slums. We have the same difficulties, but the big difference is the respect given by people due to the quality of the services which are provided.

  Jaime Lerner

  Cities, Differences, People

  "Maverick mayor: 'Eco-architecture not ego-architecture!'". Interview with Zara Bilgrami, www.cnn.com. June 6, 2008.

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• You know, we did a good job in containing the Soviet Union, but we made a lot of mistakes, we supported really nasty guys, we did some things that we are not particularly proud of, from Latin America to Southeast Asia, but we did have a kind of overarching framework about what we were trying to do that did lead to the defeat of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Communism. That was our objective. We achieved it.

  Hillary Clinton

  Leadership, Jobs, Mistake

  "Hillary Clinton: 'Failure' to Help Syrian Rebels Led to the Rise of ISIS". Interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, www.theatlantic.com. August 10, 2014.

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• The word humility (also human) is derived from the Latin humus, meaning the soil. Perhaps this is not simply because it entails stooping and returning to earthly origins, but also because, as we are rooted in this earth of everyday life, we find in it all the vitality and fertility unnoticed by people who merely tramp on across the surface, drawn by distant landscapes.

  Piero Ferrucci

  Humility, People, Everyday

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• I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband's dinner.

  Sarah Fielding

  Marriage, Husband, Believe

  Arnold Edwin Needham, Sarah Fielding (1943). “The Life and Works of Sarah Fielding”

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• I am convinced that all this poverty in Mexico and in Latin America, like it's happening in China is the opportunity to grow. It's an opportunity for investment; it's an economic activity and to take out poverty is the best investment any person or a person can do in any place.

  Carlos Slim

  Opportunity, America, Mexico

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• I am always nearest to myself," says the Latin proverb.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Selfishness, Latin Proverb

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• I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is, by knowing a great many words of two dead languages, which nobody living knows perfectly, and which are of no use in the common intercourse of life. Useful knowledge, in my opinion, consists of modern languages, history, and geography; some Latin may be thrown into the bargain, in compliance with custom, and for closet amusement.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Education, Country, Knowledge

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• It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which are raised out of the trivialness of the street, to be perpetual suggestions and provocations. It is not in vain that the farmer remembers and repeats the few Latin words which he has heard.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Suggestions, Language, Remember

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.68, Graphic Arts Books

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