Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman. — John Milton Copy Share Image
I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language. — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
The language skill in the U.S. for the most part has been awful. Many Americans don't learn any foreign language. — Stephen A. Schwarzman Copy Share Image
If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To learn any foreign language first you need to fall in love with it. — Svetlana Shchedrina | LuckyOptimistcom Copy Share Image
Fatherhood is helping your children learn English as a foreign language. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me. — Kristin Scott Thomas Copy Share Image
Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French. — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading. — Craig Thompson Copy Share Image
I feel it is unnatural and immoral to try to teach science to children in a foreign language They will know facts,… — C. V. Raman Copy Share Image
The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them… — Ato Boldon Copy Share Image
I was only 19 when I came to Hoffenheim. Everything was new to me - a strange country, a foreign language. That… — Roberto Firmino Copy Share Image
I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign… — Kristin Scott Thomas Copy Share Image
I have some classes in accounting, but I don't know anything about accounting. I - you know, when my accountant tells me… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am a bohemian person. I don't speak German, and I live in a foreign country where all the signs are in… — Anton Newcombe Copy Share Image
Remember the movie 'The Matrix,' where virtual information popped up to help inform physical day-to-day reality? Such things won't always be the… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I think most Israelis prefer not to know. So for them, texts about the occupation are like something that's been written in… — Amira Hass Copy Share Image
“You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I love watching old movies, and some of the holiday-themed ones are really great. I also have a bizarre thing that I'll… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
“Even the language to which a man is born and in which he makes known his wants is a foreign language. What… — Harry W. Wilson Copy Share Image
If I reformed school, I would do two things: We can improve a child's IQ by three percent by teaching them a… — Paul Orfalea Copy Share Image
“She read on and on, enraptured. She could not understand half, but it excited her oddly, like words in a foreign language… — Antonia White Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, in the world that we care about, endlessly preparing for social change work without actually doing it produces… — Jonathan C. Lewis Copy Share Image
“They say this city can absorb anyone. It does seem that every nationality is here in some part. There are dreamers and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
If you look at the Oscars and look at the Best Foreign Language series, you see that the films are coming from… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
“We hear speech as a string of separate words, but unlike the tree falling in the forest with no one to hear… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
People over the age of thirty were born before the digital revolution really started. We've learned to use digital technology-laptops, cameras, personal… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, in the field of second and foreign language teaching, behaviorist pedagogy—i.e., direct instruction in various forms—maintains a large following, which seems… — James Crawford Copy Share Image
“The requirements of a degree in a STEM field (science, technology, engineering, mathematics), a demanding foreign language, or a rigorous degree in… — Thomas M. Nichols Copy Share Image
“Can we reconcile indefinitely these two imperatives: the desire to preserve every individual's special identity and the need for Europeans to be… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all the time the heart… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Then the voice - which identified itself as the prince of this world, the only being who really knows what happens on… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“I can’t help thinking,” she confided when he finished answering her questions about women in India who covered their faces and hair… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
“I sat looking at her with rapt attention. My heart was thumping, the blood coursing warmly through my veins. What a wonderful… — Knut Hamsun 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
“There was terror in each and every one of the people on that beautiful beach and on that breathtakingly beautiful evening. Terror… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The obvious cure for the tragic shortcomings of human intuition in a high-tech world is education. And this offers priorities for educational… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
