Language Quotes

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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. — Leonard Cohen
Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn… — Thad Cochran
I appreciate people who try and use language in an interesting way. — Jarvis Cocker
Instrumental music can spread the international language. — Herb Alpert
The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue. — Eric Alterman
There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the… — Tori Amos
I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English. — Maya Angelou
I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody. — Maya Angelou
I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and… — Maya Angelou
Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and… — Maya Angelou
We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of language this nation… — Richard Riley
No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live. — Henry Ford
Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we have, will not in my… — Benjamin Franklin
The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned; for,… — George Washington
What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience… — Niels Bohr
Beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs will be the… — Kofi Annan
Christmas and the New Year are actually two holidays. So there is a plural, which in the English language, necessitates the use of 's.' I… — Jon Stewart
There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love,… — Goswami Kriyananda

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