First Language Quotes
26 quotes by 25 authors
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God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.
— Thomas Keating
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French was my first language.
— Bob Cousy
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I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I do know, however, is that…
— Edward Said
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Our parents taught us to love God, love our family and love our country. Their own grandparents were immigrants. Their first language may not have…
— Martin O'Malley
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I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.
— Odette Annable
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My first language is Gaelic.
— Enya
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Touch is the first language we speak.
— Stephen Gaskin
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Silence is God's first language.
— John of the Cross
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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
— Adam Gopnik
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My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and in school they…
— Bella Thorne
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I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking.
— Robert Stack
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Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.
— Christopher Walken
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I think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing in my first language. I have to…
— Louis Begley
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My first language is both English and Spanish. My mom was raised in Los Angeles, so with her we spoke English, but my father was…
— Jencarlos Canela
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Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.
— Denis Lavant
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The first time I was in Stockholm, everybody was real cordial, but I started having these nightmares that I was being watched by aliens, basically…
— Mikky Ekko
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish,…
— Salma Hayek
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My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
— Al Pacino
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Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.
— Margaret Atwood
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My first language, the true language of the soul spoken only on our planet of origin, had no word for betrayal or traitor. Or even…
— Stephenie Meyer
Who Wrote These First Language Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 26 First Language Quotes as follows: