Foreign Languages Quotes

30 quotes by 27 authors

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
The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature. — Emma Bonino
The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present. — Ross Macdonald
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
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
Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages. — Neil Simon
I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad. — Ella Maillart
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
There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know,… — Barbara Ehrenreich
I realized very early in life what my abilities and limitations were, and foreign languages was definitely one of my limitations. With strenuous effort, I… — Michio Kaku
After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in… — Paul Nurse

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