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It's an honor to represent a Latin culture.

I studied Latin in high school, and I was reading stuff from Cicero. And that signal took a few thousand years to get to me. But I was still interested in what he had to say.

Somebody told me once I wasn't Latin enough, and that made me laugh.

Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek.

My education started with Latin taught at home by a governess, I can't imagine why, and for some reason I attended the Infants Department of the Oxford High School for Girls before moving to the Dragon School at the dangerous age of 8 or so.

I had a Latin master who, for no rational reason whatsoever - I was a very quiet kid at school - just hated me.

My father made me take three years of Latin in high school.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

They do not know very good Latin, these botanists.

Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.