Latin Quotes - Page 9

• 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 decided to go to Latin America because many of my students in Washington emigrated from this region and inspired me to learn more about their home countries.

  Jenna Bush

  Country, Home, America

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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 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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• 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'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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• But oh! the Latin!-Madame, you can really have no idea of what a mess it is. The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. Lucky dogs! they already knew in their cradles the nouns ending in im. I on the contrary had to learn it by heart, in the sweat of my brow.

  Heinrich Heine

  Dog, Heart, Sweat

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.183

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• One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day."

  Peter Brodie

  Education, Nice, Fretting

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• In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Writing, School

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Sydney: I like Latin. It's fun. Eddie: I can't believe you think we're the strange ones.

  Richelle Mead

  Fun, Believe, Thinking

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• Arbores loqui latine. The trees speak Latin.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Tree, Speak

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves”, p.70, Scholastic UK

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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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• While I am sane I shall compare nothing to the joy of a friend.

  Horace

  Joy, Compare, Sane

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• If only Jupiter would restore me those bygone years.

  Virgil

  Years, Jupiter, Ifs

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• What a lot of work it was to found the Roman race.

  Virgil

  Race, Found, Working It

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• How can there be such anger in the minds of the gods?

  Virgil

  Mind

  "The Aeneid".

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• Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand the wanderings of the heavens and foretell the rising of stars. But you, Roman, remember to rule the peoples with power (these will be your arts); impose the habit of peace, spare the vanquished and war down the proud!

  Virgil

  Fashion, Art, Stars

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• Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.

  Augustus

  Farewell, Alive

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• Demon mean knowledge in Greek, especially about the material world. Science means knowledge in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no further

  Carl Sagan

  Mean, Science, Greek

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• People often find it easier to refute a fake extreme opponent than a more cautious real one, so they knock down the straw man instead. It is actually worth the trouble to identify the invalid forms of argument, and to learn their names. Not only can you then avoid them yourself; you can also identify them in opponents. If you call your opponent's errors by their Latin names, you can make it look as though he or she is suffering from a rare tropical disease.

  Madsen Pirie

  Real, Men, Names

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• Encyclopedia is a Latin term. It means "to paraphrase a term paper."

  Greg Ray

  Mean, Term Paper, Paraphrase

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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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• Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.

  Lin Biao

  Europe, Cities, Gdp

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• I must confess the language of symbols is to me
  A Babylonish dialect
  Which learned chemists much affect;
  It is a party-coloured dress
  Of patch'd and piebald languages:
  'T is English cut on Greek and Latin,
  Like fustian heretofore on satin.

  Sir Richard Phillips

  Party, Learning, Cutting

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• A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics'. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Real, Fall

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison (2001). “Orwell and politics: Animal farm in the context of essays, reviews and letters selected from the complete works of George Orwell”, Penguin Modern Classics

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