Quotes About Latin

As historians, we spend days in archives, gazing at account books. We train would-be historians in the arts of deciphering letters and documents, early Latin, scribal handwriting, medieval French.

I had been learning Italian for years. I always loved Latin, but Italian is a living language; I'm writing in it now as well as reading it. It is so interesting delving further into language.

Il citait du latin, tant il était exaspéré.

I'm thrilled to have Corona join me on my 'X100PRE' Tour to give my fans a taste of Corona Estereo Beach and showcase their support of Latin music. It's not solely about the music - it's about the culture, creativity, and contributing to the movement that connects us all together.

With 'Timbiriche', I toured Brazil and a lot of Latin America.

Arbores loqui latine. The trees speak Latin.

The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse.

the sign that was put on Jesus' cross, saying in Hebrew, Latin and Greek that Jesus was the King of the Jews

Latin! The language of God! Or perhaps He speaks Hebrew? I suppose that's more likely and it will make things rather awkward in heaven, won't it? Will we all have to learn Hebrew?

The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.

Any club is important. All Latin music movements are born in clubs. There is no better research than going to a club. If your music works, it will bounce up.

The word amateur comes from the Latin root meaning to love.

The Latin term pro bono, as most attorneys will attest, roughly translated means for boneheads and applies to work done without charge.

The connoisseur of Camp has found more ingenious pleasures. Not in Latin poetry and rare wines and velvet jackets, but in the coarsest, commonest pleasures, in the arts of the masses.

I must try to be charitable, Caroline thought: probably she doesn't mean to sound as if she is continually translating from Latin.

This English word derives from the Greek mageia and the Latin magia meaning "art of the magus or magician." These words in turn derive from the Magi, a Persian caste of priests, spiritual practitioners, and masters of astrology and divination. (See Magi, Magician.)

I've been trying to train my cat to understand the meaning of the word "no." Which seems to be roughly equivalent to teaching a dog Latin.

How's your Latin?' asked Charlie. 'Non-existent.' 'Well, you might find the next class a bit tough then.

He still had dreams about it. Certainly not nightmares - it could not be worth the energy. But every month or so he woke up from one of those annoying visions where he was back at school (rather absurdly at his current age of eight-and-twenty). It was always of a similar nature. He looked down at his schedule and suddenly realized he'd forgotten to attend Latin class for an entire term. Or arrived for an exam without his trousers.

I don't know if I'm necessarily a role model, but hopefully I can inspire any artist - Latin or otherwise - to do this thing for a living.

When English football started to integrate more with European football, England started to share the Latin culture more.

Brazil must resume and deepen Latin American integration.

En la península ibérica el latín se partió en dos troncos que los lingüistas han denominado iberorromance y occitanorromance. Del primero proviene el castellano, el portugués, el gallego y el asturleonés. Del segundo el catalán, el valenciano, el aragonés y el occitano.

Of all the questions you might want to askabout angels, the only one you ever hearis how many can dance on the head of a pin.No curiosity about how they pass the eternal timebesides circling the Throne chanting in Latinor delivering a crust of bread to a hermit on earthor guiding a boy and a girl across a rickety wooden bridge.