Latin Language

Famous quotes containing the words latin and/or language:

    “What’s the Latin name for ‘parsley’?
    What’s the Greek name for Swine’s Snout?”
    —Robert Browning (1812–1889)

    “When a language creates—as it does—a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.”
    —Christopher Ricks (b. 1933)