Language Quotes

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We believe that Carlyle has, after all, more readers, and is better known to-day for thisvery originality of style, and that posterity will have reason… — Henry David Thoreau
A heavy sentence, my most sovereign liege, And all unlooked-for from Your Highness' mouth. A dearer merit, not so deep a maim As to be… — William Shakespeare
Having more than one mother language may be a problem sometimes, mainly if they tend to be in conflict with each other. — Jean-Paul Malfatti
Some hard and dry book in a dead language, which you have found it impossible to read at home, but for which you still have… — Henry David Thoreau
I sent my son, who normally speaks very good English, to check if there was bread in the fridge. He came back saying, there is… — CHILL SAUCE KTN
Our mouths speak different languages, but our hearts speak only one language, the language of love. — Unknown Author
Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language. — Karl Kraus
Heredity Proposes love, love exacts language, and we lack Language. When shall we speak again? When shall The sparrow dusting the gutter sing? When shall… — Allen Tate
When your thoughts are too crowded and you can't form the words, remember, tears are a language God truly understands. — Azgraybebly Joslan
A written word is the choicestof relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art.… — Henry David Thoreau
For women ... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of light within which we… — Audre Lorde
They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in freedom's cause. — Cecil Day-Lewis
I suggested to them also the great desirability of a general knowledge on the Island of the English language. They are under an English speakinggovernment… — Calvin Coolidge
Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic… — HonorÃ© De Balzac
Coleridge observes that all men are born Aristotelians or Platonists. The latter feel that classes, orders, and genres arerealities; the former, that theyare generalizations. For… — Jorge Luis Borges
The Human Language Leaves So Much That I Cannot Express; But Even Without Words, I Could Not Love You Any Less. — Ritu Ghatourey
They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak! — Ritu Ghatourey
When you speak from the heart, no language is needed. When you speak from the head, only language can say something. — Ritu Ghatourey
The roots of all conflicts could be traced to the violation of human rights. When we think of violation of human rights, it need not… — T Joseph Benziger
I find it cruel that the word lisp has an s in it. — Nikhil Saluja

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