Language Quote by Andrew Dalby

“The power of language – it can heal and build, or corrupt, poison, destroy, desecrate, annihilate…”

— Daniel S. Fletcher

“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

“Languages are like beings: they thrive, take a dive, and need care to survive.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

“A language is a means of communication and should be lived rather than taught.”

— Benny Lewis

“No one can teach anyone to be a great anything. If your blood is on fire with the love of language and the desire…

— Frances Mayes

“Languages can be powerful things. The stronger ones quite simply bulldoze the weaker ones, assimilating whatever is useful and discarding the rest. It doesn’t…

— Glenn Dixon

“There is nothing more substantial to place against the cruelty of the world than language.”

— Colum McCann

“What the survival of threatened languages means, perhaps, is the endurance of dozens, hundreds, thousands of subtly different notions of truth.”

— Mark Abley

“All languages were bestowed with a garland of wisdom and possess knowledge,understanding and instruction to reflect the beauty of a particular culture. No language…

— David Ssembajjo

“And this power in their teaching had to do, first of all, with the content of what they taught – that is, with the…

— Paul F. Knitter

“When a language dies, a possible world dies with it.”

— George Steiner

“Even ruins are teachers, if we listen to what fell.”

— Lawrence Nault