Quotes about Latin

Inspire (from the Latin inspirare) means to breathe life into another.

I was not proficient in Latin and so was not able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. However, I did enter the first-rate chemistry honours program at the University of Manchester in 1950, where the professors were E.R.H. Jones and M.G. Evans, and graduated in 1953, with the financial support of a Blackpool Education Committee Scholarship.

Beta. Software undergoes beta testing shortly before it's released. Beta is Latin for "still doesn't work."

Studying Latin can teach you how to think analytically.

Trinity. It wasn't until the third century that Tertullian (150—240), sometimes called "the founder of Western Christian theology," first coined this word Trinity from the Latin trinitas, meaning "triad," or trinus, meaning "threefold." Again, the word itself is not found in the Bible; it took history awhile to find a proper word for this always-elusive "rubber band.

Novelas are very respected in the Latin world.

If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.

Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not,And all their botany is Latin names.

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.