Her father was frightened by a strange bed or a foreign…

My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that…

— Anonymous

“We brought death to our enemies, and I loved the power of it. And that final love, one I shared with my father, frightened…

— Patricia Briggs

“French writer Alexis de Tocqueville captured this sentiment, from a foreigner’s perspective, writing in 1831 after a tour of the nascent country that “The…

— Elizabeth H. Bradley

“Certainly, I believed that our democratic system of government was the best thing going. I was a flag-waver from way back. I was proud…

— Richard Cezar

The thing that should most concern us is a shift in American foreign policy. We have had a bipartisan belief in American foreign policy…

— David Brooks

The position of the Americans is quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“The Actor, noticing a closed bookshop, dismounted from the horse which he tied to a street lamp. He woke up the bookseller and bought…

— Georges Limbour

“Under ordinary circumstances, we learn to speak before we learn to read, and anyone who has tried to learn a foreign language knows that…

— Kory Stamper

I have a one-question language test that people who have lived abroad do better on than those who studied in a classroom. Try my…

— Nicholas Kristof

As the president of Kosovo, I am more concerned about the current situation with the employment standing at around 70 % of the population,…

— Ibrahim Rugova

The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought…

— Havelock Ellis

Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Hear me now or regret it later: Everything you write must be read aloud. Once all the context items are in place, this is…

— Jiro Adachi

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

— Aravind Adiga

I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial…

— Ted Martinez