Quotes of: Latin-america Keyword

I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture.

Julio Iglesias

The fact that the United States has political, economic, and legal structures that do indeed create incentives to control hazards (in the workplace) is one the reasons the corporations have moved to Latin America and Asia.

The True Cost of Low Prices: The Violence of Globalization

Land ownership in Guatemala is more unequal than anywhere else in Latin America. Roughly 90 percent of Guatemalan farms are too small to support a family. A tiny group of Guatemalans owns a third of the country's arable land; more than 300,000 landle...

Stephen Kinzer

Even if he was happier in Asia than he'd been in Latin America, the wanderlust still worked on my father's insides like a disease. One of the most recurrent memories of my childhood is of him sitting in his armchair in the evenings, poring over atlas...

Scott Anderson

A fool who knows Latin is never a real fool.

Spanish

I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood.

Jessica Hagedorn

We Latin women are liberated from the neck up, not the neck down.

Cristina Saralegui

Maurice: I'm the ultimate Latin Lover. There ain't no Latin Lover like me.

Boogie Nights

The battle for the gospel in the opening years of the twenty-first century is being fought not primarily in the lecture rooms of North American seminaries but in the shanty towns, urban slums and villages of Africa, Asia and Latin America.

The Global Diffusion of Evangelicalism: The Age of Billy Graham and John Stott

Well, by the standards of a lot of countries, by Latin American standards, it wasn't so bad.

Paul A. Volcker

I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture. The stylings of my words are immodest, but it's the truth.

Julio Iglesias

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

Phil Rizzuto

France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.

Xavier Niel

Whoever has a tail of straw should not hesitate near the fire.

Latin American

Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.

Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook

Study is the child of silence and mystery.

The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter: Scenes de la Vie de Boheme

Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemos.

Scorn for the World: Bernard of Cluny's De Contemptu Mundi : The Latin Text With English Translation and an Introduction

Much as slavery in the United States was part of a larger Atlantic Slave System, so America’s War of Independence was an outgrowth of Europe’s Seven Years’ War — from 1756 to 1763 — and also a precursor or harbinger of the French and Haitia...

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barba...

Carlos Fuentes

I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel...

The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

It's hard for the American industry to see a Latin actor playing something that is not a gardener or someone in a cartel. It's hard to find the material that tells a story of a Latin or European Spanish guy that is not a bad guy.

Jordi Molla