Foreign Language Quotes

82 quotes by 74 authors

I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language. — Richard Peck
Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last… — Dave Barry
Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it… — Yao Ming
He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign… — Max von Sydow
For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language. — Fabrice Luchini
Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French. — Aravind Adiga
Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can't speak any foreign language, I don't feel out of place. I think… — Akira Kurosawa
The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature. — Emma Bonino
Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be… — Maureen Forrester
The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present. — Ross Macdonald
It seems that every movie is a remake of something that was better when it was first released in a foreign language, as a 1960s… — Alan Moore
To observe the world carefully, to write a lot and often, on a schedule if necessary, to use the dictionary a lot, to look up… — Lydia Davis
We have strong evidence today that studying a foreign language has a ripple effect, helping to improve student performance in other subjects. — Richard Riley
Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory… — Marilyn Hacker
I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still… — Joseph Epstein
Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with the other words… — James Lovelock
I'd like to speak a foreign language well enough to get the jokes. I'd like to talk with Socrates, and watch Michelangelo sculpt David. I'd… — Robert Fulghum

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