Quotes About Latin

Another man packed a gold seal for stamping wax on the back of an envelope, with the Latin motto Tuta Tenebo, "I will keep you safe.

It was my first-year Latin teacher in high school who made me who made me discover I'd fallen in love with it (grammar). It took Latin to thrust me into bona fide alliance with words in their true meaning. Learning Latin fed my love for words upon words in continuation and modification, and the beautiful, sober, accretion of a sentence. I could see the achieved sentence finally standing there, as real, intact, and built to stay as the Mississippi State Capitol at the top of my street.

In 1799 Princess Louisa of Prussia wrote to Jenner asking for 'vaccine' matter (the word comes from the Latin for 'cow'),

I had a Latin master who, for no rational reason whatsoever - I was a very quiet kid at school - just hated me.

Bachata is expensive to produce because of all of the instruments.

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

I was a teen idol in Latin America.

The Roman goddess Diana, you know, is usually shown with a bow and arrow. Every first-year Latin student knows that. I still remember the first simple sentence I learned in Latin 'Diana sagittas por tas... Diana carries the arrows.' That helped get me interested in archery as a teenager and I'm still into it a lot.

there's nothing like Latin for slapping the fuck out of people who think they're better than you. I've used it several times to good effect.

absurd. This word for ridiculous, foolish, or irrational comes to us from the world of music, as the original meaning of its Latin ancestor, absurdus, was "out of tune or harmony.

Rumor is the ancient Latin word for contagious narrative.

In 2004 there were only 5,116.19 Why? Because they have been replaced by Latin Americans! In many Latin American nations today, native-born evangelical Protestant clergy far outnumber both foreign missionaries as well as local Catholic priests.

Spinoza wrote the last indisputable Latin masterpiece, and one in which the refined conceptions of medieval philosophy are finally turned against themselves and destroyed entirely. He chose a single word from that language for his device: caute – 'be cautious' – inscribed beneath a rose, the symbol of secrecy. For, having chosen to write in a language that was so widely intelligible, he was compelled to hide what he had written.

Princeton applicants had to know Virgil, Cicero's orations, and Latin grammar and also had to be 'so well acquainted with Greek as to render any part of the four Evangelists in that language into Latin or English.

Reacher said nothing in reply to that. Feral, from the Latin adjective ferus, wild, via bestia fera, wild animal. Generally held to mean having escaped from domestication, and having devolved back to a natural state.

You have a cerebral contusion, in Latin contusio cerebri, in fact technically two, both coup and contre

Zeno spoke Greek, not Latin, and preferred passive resignation to reckless optimism.

O Mouse, do you know the way out of this pool? I am very tired of swimming about here, O Mouse!' (Alice thought this must be the right way of speaking to a mouse: she had never done such a thing before, but she remembered having seen in her brother's Latin Grammar, 'A mouse—of a mouse—to a mouse—a mouse—O mouse!')

I miss Latin. So much fun--all those exciting verbs that don't come until the end of the sentence. It's like a movie trailer for language.

Wow, I miss Latin. So much fun - all those exciting verbs that don't come unit the end of the sentence. It's like a movie trailer for language.

Private. Not to be opened, was written in capital letters on the cover. He raised his eyebrows. It was the sort of thing one wrote in one's Latin Grammar while one was still at one's preparatory school. Black is the raven, black is the rook, But blacker the thief who steals this book! It was curiously childish, he thought, and he smiled to himself. He opened the book. What he saw made him wince as though he had been struck.

Y si lo de Nueva Córdoba cobraba cuerpo, podría contarse, en última instancia, con la ayuda de Estados Unidos, ya que la Casa Blanca estaba opuesta, ahora más que nunca, a toda germinación de movimientos anarquizantes, socializantes, en esta América de abajo, harto revoltosa y latina.

I bring a lot of passion to my life and my politics - I don't mind saying there is a very strong Latin component to it.

Inspire (from the Latin inspirare) means to breathe life into another.