Bilingual Quotes

24 quotes by 22 authors

Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.' — Dave Chappelle
We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity,… — Newt Gingrich
I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages. — Jon Secada
All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual. — Helen Vendler
After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is… — Stephen Harper
The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out… — Alma Guillermoprieto
Sarah Buckley is precious, because she is bilingual. She can speak the language of a mother who gave birth to her four children at home.… — Michel Odent
He speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual too. — Don King
The latter. She had a good run, Sook said, doing a little shrug. It was his usual response to death at Mapleshade, and it was… — Lisa Lutz
The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands. — Bill Vaughan
Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been. — Stephen Harper
All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity. — Gordie Howe
My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to… — Ernest Istook
An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these… — Sonia Sotomayor
Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think… — John Millington Synge
An indigenous culture with sufficient territory, and bilingual and intercultural education, is in a better position to maintain and cultivate its mythology and shamanism. Conversely,… — Jeremy Narby
Anecdotally his fitness reports rated him well above average in the classroom, excellent in the field, fluently bilingual in English and French, passable in Spanish,… — Lee Child
You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I never understood that. My parents always had me… — Emily Rios
History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing… — Richard Lamm
Serial tasking is hard because switching tasks is hard, even when the tasks are easy and similar. In some experiments, bilingual speakers are asked to… — Sendhil Mullainathan

Who Wrote These Bilingual Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 24 Bilingual Quotes as follows: