“People know two languages: their native language and gibberish.” — Maribel C. Pagan Copy Share Image
I've always considered myself to be Russian: my native language is Russian. — Alexandra Elbakyan 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
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
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
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
I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language. — John Dryden 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
Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language. — Julia Glass 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
“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
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
“Although it permits the use of students’ native language “to clarify key concepts,” this weak form of bilingual instruction has no support… — James Crawford Copy Share Image
“A woman who utters such depressing and disgusting sounds has no right to be anywhere - no right to live. Remember that… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
English is my first language. When I learn a song in a new language, I break down the sounds phonetically and write… — Jonita Gandhi Copy Share Image
As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so… — John Milton 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
“He’s a liar!’ shouted his astonished companion from the bush hard by: ‘Kill him, he’s alone.’ [128 – 129] They were at… — Sol T. Plaatje Copy Share Image
English general and singular terms, identity, quantification, and the whole bag of ontological tricks may be correlated with elements of the native… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
I studied piano from the age of three. My grandmother taught piano. I stayed at her house during the day while my… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“Second only to guarding the freedom of exchange of information, acquire a firm basic knowledge in communications and in technology. Learn to… — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
A woman who utters such disgusting and depressing noise has no right to be anywhere, no right to live. Remember that you… — Rex Harrison Copy Share Image
“Mirroring is especially helpful when our differences may divide. Think of the times when you have made a diligent effort to speak… — Susan C. Young 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
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
“Inferiority is not banal or incidental even when it happens to women. It is not a petty affliction like bad skin or… — Andrea Dworkin 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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
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
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
“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