I've always considered myself to be Russian: my native language is Russian. — Alexandra Elbakyan Copy Share Image
“People know two languages: their native language and gibberish.” — Maribel C. Pagan Copy Share Image
“The scariest thing about depression is how normal it starts to feel. How silence becomes your native language. How disappearing starts to… — Chloe Holland Dicks Copy Share Image
How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right. — Black Hawk Copy Share Image
“Your religion of origin has such a bone-deep hold on you that, as with a native language, it's your only hope for… — George Lindbeck Copy Share Image
When I came here I moved to London and I was meeting so many new people and had to speak only in… — Saara Aalto Copy Share Image
Latin is beautiful and has become something of an international language, but there is also something about singing in your native language… — Mack Wilberg Copy Share Image
No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly… — Casey Miller Copy Share Image
I had a gold medal in olympics at 12. At 14 or 15 I had my career set before me. Because I… — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
“All that they lacked was the gift that descended upon the chosen disciples at Pentecost, in tongues of flame; symbolizing, it would… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Occasionally, merely for the pleasure of being cruel, we put unoffending Frenchmen on the rack with questions framed in the incomprehensible jargon… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“don’t know about you, but my English isn’t perfect. I hesitate when I’m nervous, I forget precisely the right word every now… — Benny Lewis Copy Share Image
“Is. English. Not. Your. Native. Language?" Grim spoke each word separately, and strung each syllable out. Nick hated it when he did… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
In the UK, most of the nasheeds that I did were in my native language, Urdu. Youngsters who could not understand the… — Junaid Jamshed Copy Share Image
It is everyone's story. We are ashamed of our native language, be it Punjabi or Urdu. If you make mistakes while speaking… — Saba Qamar Copy Share Image
It was hard for me to do the show (All American Girl) because a lot of people didn't even understand the concept… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
“We speak and understand best our native language. We feel most comfortable speaking that language. The more we use a secondary language,… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Logic, like language, is partly a free construction and partly a means of symbolizing and harnessing in expression the existing diversities of… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“The native language of Babylonia-Assyria did no doubt influence the language of Canaan, but chiefly through Phoenician script. The language found on… — John Courtenay James Copy Share Image
The United States, a land of immigrants from every corner of the world, has been strengthened and unified because its newcomers have… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
“Let’s put to rest one cliché. You can sell refrigerators to Eskimos. The people of Savoonga are Yupiks, the westernmost of the… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
Post-wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
“A child's cry touches a father's heart, and our King is the Father of his people. If we can do no more… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“It was around the time of the divorce that all traces of decency vanished, and his dream of being the next great… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
“Soldiers of the Ninth Century, I am your new centurion, Marcus Tribulus Corvus. From this moment I formally assume command of this… — Anthony Riches Copy Share Image
“There are so many dirty names for her that one rarely learns them all, even in one’s native language. There are dirty… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“The entire virtue of religious practices can be conceived from the Buddhist tradition concerning the recitation of the name of the Lord.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“It was van Hulle who had been the initiator of this restoration of their ancestral language to its former glory as a… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“Smiling victoriously, he crushed me against his chest and kissed me again. This time, the kiss was bolder and playful. I ran… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
“First was the abandonment of our native language and our unquestioned embrace of English, even though for my parents that abandonment meant… — Alex Tizon Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, we live in an era where once a person learns a bit of the Arabic language and memorizes the translation of… — Shaykh Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhlawi Copy Share Image
Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Besides Hindi and English, I can speak in Maithli, my native language, and in Bangla and Nepalese too. But I can just… — Sriti Jha Copy Share Image
I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I believe the United States should allow all foreigners in this country, provided they can speak our native language... Apache. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image