“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
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
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
Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language. — Julia Glass 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
“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
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
We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Living freely means being able to freely communicate in your native language and to be guided by the 10th article of the… — Petro Poroshenko Copy Share Image
Today, getting people to hear your story on social media, and then act on it, requires using a platform’s native language, paying… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
So, rather than becoming multicultural, rather than becoming a person of several languages, rather than becoming confident in your knowledge of the… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The fight to grab eyeballs for Marathi films is intense because a majority of Maharashtrians speak Hindi and there's no undivided loyalty… — Mahesh Manjrekar 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
“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
“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
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
“There are those who eagerly learn another language to be one with another culture, then there are those morons who insist on… — Abhijit Naskar 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
I have observed Afghani people and their Urdu is not as chaste as it should be and that reflects in the way… — Mukul Dev Copy Share Image
They're on their way to the foreign-language wing. That's no surprise. The foreign kids are always here, like they need to breathe… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Translators need a lot of skills besides fluency in at least two languages; translators need to be excellent writers in their native… — Corinne McKay Copy Share Image
“The self-contained special needs environment may be the one and only venue that facilitates the spiritual growth for some students because it's… — Amy Fenton Lee Copy Share Image
“Alas, here is the bigger problem: maybe the reason we North Americans struggle to find makarios in our personal lives is because… — E. Randolph Richards Copy Share Image
