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 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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“They jabbered amongst themselves in a bizarre jibberish that sounded like Spanish gone wrong: maybe gringo Spanglish, some kind of Espanahuatl that… — Ernest Hogan 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
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 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
“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
“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
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
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
Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is… — George Bernard Shaw 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
Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all… — Jack Kerouac 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