Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rita Moreno

The reason there weren't any, I am surmising, is that a lot of Latin kids, Latino kids, in those days didn't have the money to take those kind of classes.

Noam Chomsky

Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.

There are Latinos throughout the U.S. who are U.S. citizens, who are culturally immersed, assimilated into the system. We feel we are just being picked on.

Aaron Lowe

We love doing the . . . Latin (rhythm). You feel like you're in a night club.

Roselyn Sanchez

I admire them for making their way up and opening new opportunities for other Latin newcomers. Latinos have come a long way and the roles and opportunities just seem to be improving.

Stephen Jay Gould

Words change their meanings, just as organisms evolve. We would impose an enormous burden on our economy if we insisted on payment in cattle every time we identified a bonus as a pecuniary advantage (from the Latin pecus , or cattle, a verbal fossil from a former commercial reality).

Dolores Huerta

went back to our old culture, the Latino culture.

Bianca Jagger

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

Bianca Jagger

Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.

Carl Orff

The subject matter covered in Carmina stays pretty basic: love, lust, the pleasures of drinking and the heightened moods evoked by springtime. These primitive and persistently relevant themes are nicely camouflaged by the Latin and old German texts, so the listener can actually feign ignorance while listening to virtually X-rated lyrics. (Veni Veni Venias! Come, come come now!)The music itself toggles between huge forces and a single voice, juxtaposing majesty and intimacy with ease...

Carl Sagan

Science is only a Latin word for knowledge

Bill Bryson

English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with which it has precious little in common.

Ronald Reagan

Status quo, you know, that is Latin for ''the mess we're in.''

Bitsie Tulloch

I think Latin American cultures are really rich and fascinating. I like the pomp and circumstance of some of their rituals and ceremonies.

Che Guevara

If it is an element of liberation for Latin America, I believe that it should have demonstrated that. Until now, I have not been aware of any such demonstration. The IMF performs an entirely different function: precisely that of ensuring that capital based outside of Latin America controls all of Latin America.

Che Guevara

I wanted to take part in the liberation of even a small piece of enslaved Latin America.

You just don't see alternative Latin performers on TV.

William Shakespeare

Remuneration! O! That's the Latin word for three farthings

Places like Yale have hosted it in the past, and this year we were able to do so because of our strong development in Latin American Studies.

Hermann Hesse

I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.

Jose Saramago

Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Above the pyramid on the great seal of the United States it says in Latin: "God has favored our undertaking." God will not favor everything that we do. It is rather our duty to divine His will.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Don't Latin Americans have the right to ask why their elected governments are being opposed and coup leaders supported? Poverty and hardship in large parts of Africa are preventing this from happening. Don't they have the right to ask why their enormous wealth - including minerals - is being looted, despite the fact that they need it more than others?

Gael Garcia Bernal

In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.

Gael Garcia Bernal

In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.

Gael Garcia Bernal

I asked the producers when I was doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' if they could give me a VHS recording of the film that I could show to my family, because in Mexico and Latin America, when you do a film, you don't expect anybody to see it, especially not in the cinema.

Gael Garcia Bernal

Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.

Odette Annable

I'm Latin, for crying out loud - I can't hold anything back!

Oscar de la Renta

My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, 'That's what I am'

Hilaire Belloc

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

Henry Fielding

What was said by the Latin poet of labor--that it conquers all things--is much more true when applied to impudence.

Eduardo Galeano

The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth.

Eduardo Galeano

We Latins are known for jabbering on.