Foreign Language Quotes

82 quotes by 74 authors

My neighbor has two dogs. One of them says to the other, "Woof!" The other replies, "Moo!" The dog is perplexed. "Moo? Why did you… — Morey Amsterdam
I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers
...conversation can be as mutually incomprehensible as foreign languages. We need the different and complementary perspectives of the various yogas - and ideally of all… — Huston Smith
Foreign languages, I think they are important but I don't think it should be required because-actually I think they should be teaching you English and… — Tupac Shakur
I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese. — Bill Gates
Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. — John Brown
Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages. — Neil Simon
I love watching old movies, and some of the holiday-themed ones are really great. I also have a bizarre thing that I'll do: I'll turn… — John Travolta
Learning astrology is like learning any foreign language. You already have the ideas, concepts, and experiences of your life within you; you are just learning… — Barbara Goldsmith
Translation is a two-edged instrument: it has the special purpose of demonstrating the learner's knowledge of the foreign language, either as a form of control… — Peter Newmark
The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning, — Yehuda Amichai
A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as… — Beatrix Campbell
Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language. — Langston Hughes
French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me. — Kristin Scott Thomas
I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad. — Ella Maillart
I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have… — Alan Furst
Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins. — Assia Djebar
My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me in good stead… — Lawrence Klein
When I [first] went to university, I was doing foreign languages, because I had done them since I was 13 years old. I had done… — Nick Offerman

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