#latin

They've got so many Latin players we're going to have to get a Latin instructor up here. ↗

— Phil Rizzuto

#going #got #here #instructor #latin

But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#english #englishmen #exceptions #found #french

Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting. ↗

— George Sanders

#exciting #how #know #like #neither

Omnia mutantur, nihil interit (everything changes, nothing perishes). ↗

— Ovid

#latin #change

Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your own. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#dominican #latino #race #white-girl #dating

Sometimes opposites attract, or so they say, but Paloma and Rocío were like arroz and mangú: they didn’t really mix well. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#family #family-drama #family-relationships #family-saga #hispanic

...namque...solebatis meas esse aliquid putare nuqas ↗

— Erich Segal

#love

I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S. ↗

— Eduardo Galeano

#almost #am #america #anything #astonished

While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty. ↗

— Tran Duc Luong

#africa #america #ample #asia #being

My lord, I have some matter of law relating to the indictment, and I desire counsel to speak to it. ↗

— William Kidd

#desire #i #indictment #law #lord