Accents Quote by Alexander Pope

Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

— Jim Harrison

Help, please, who wishes!I'm not englishspeaker, write poetry for children to help them to learn lang., Can natives speak in such way? In the…

— Yulia Godliya

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

— Benjamin Franklin

A child, when it begins to speak, learns what it is that it knows.

— John Hall Wheelock

“As you speak I swear I can hear words being selected, one after another, from the word-box you carry around with you, and slotted…

— J.M. Coetzee

“Our language now has become quick-moving (in syllables), and may be very supple and nimble, but is rather thin in sound and in sense…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

When I came to this country, people told me that if I wanted to teach and work here, I would have to take speech…

— Ruth Westheimer

For something to be useful to the spirit is not very valuable to get your covered wagon across the desert. We have adopted that…

— Miller Williams

Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were,…

— Helen Keller

My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty…

— Mark Twain

A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.

— Zoe Saldana

“I think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongue.”

— Anne Rice