#latin

He cared for languages dead long enough that they wouldn’t change on him. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#change

i think you will be tired of telling me & my dreams to go to hell ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#deflating #dreams #go-to-hell #dreams

Science is only a Latin word for knowledge ↗

— Carl Sagan

#knowledge #latin #learn #science #truth

Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#freedom-of-thought #hispanic #identity #immigrant-experience #latino-americans

Even the most political poem is an act of faith. ↗

— Martin Espada

#poetry #faith

nil admirari" be surprised at nothing ↗

— Motto of the Fitzgibbon family

#family

In the consciousness that another mind reflects your thought, you find the keenest satisfaction. Here is the high office of a friend, and in these high experiences is the point of attachment.-- ↗

— Samuel McChord Crothers

#friendship #relating #experience

Stultorum cavea mundus est. ↗

— Tommaso Campanella

#latin #inspirational

I have never been so calculating as to sing some Barry White song to get a girl. But I do think it's very romantic to cook dinner and sit around the piano at night and sing together. ↗

— John Stamos

#barry #barry white #been #calculating #cook

Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. (To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.) ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#latin #ignorance