Language Quote by Andrew Dalby

“Brothers in one great family, children lose their common features only when they lose their innocence, which is the same everywhere. Then the passions,…

— François-René de Chateaubriand

“When personal resentment overrides familial and cultural values, we all lose.”

— Amy-Jill Levine

“The more parents talk to their children, even in the earliest moments of life, the better their kids’ linguistic abilities become”

— John Medina

“As recent immigrants, they wanted their children to speak and read English well. Miss”

— Fannie Flagg

To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet…

— Mary Ellen Chase

“Our language has lost its ability to convey the spontaneous.”

— Jerzy Kosiński

“First was the abandonment of our native language and our unquestioned embrace of English, even though for my parents that abandonment meant cutting themselves…

— Alex Tizon

“I realized that my mother had not taught us the tribal language because she knew her children would not be strong enough to carry…

— Sherman Alexie

“I cannot express enough how every decision that we make as human beings is so critical to those that come after us. It may…

— Ahmad Aleem Williams

“Inevitably, our children come to see us as we are. Not as we wish we were, or even as we should be.”

— Michael Perry

“A childish feeling, I admit, but, when we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each…

— Mikhail Lermontov

“Someone has said that culture is what remains with you after you have forgotten all you have read, and I believe there is much…

— Louis L'Amour