Languages Quotes

557 quotes by 475 authors

I had a thought, on the way home from the rock field, that the things we don't know about a person are the things that… — Miriam Toews
I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history — Rick Renzi
We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to their… — Rick Renzi
All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS. — Bill Hayden
People need to see that, far from being an obstacle, the world's diversity of languages, religions and traditions is a great treasure, affording us precious… — Youssou N'Dour
But the Dutch speak four languages and smoke marijuana. — Eddie Izzard
If youâ€™ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages. — Michael Lewis
It is time to ask: are we Aborigines a serious people? â€¦ Do we have the seriousness necessary to maintain our languages, traditions and knowledge?… — Noel Pearson
Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality. — Gilles Peress
People who thought of my journey as a physical ordeal or an act of courage... missed the point. Courage and physical endurance were no more… — Ted Simon
An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave. They left, abandoning… — Daniel Yergin
Frankly, the reason I joined MENSA is because I was dating a guy at the time who spoke five languages and could solve a Rubik's… — Ashley Rickards
Languages shape the way we think, or don't. — Erik Naggum
I have a cat, so I know that when she digs her very sharp claws into my chest or stomach it's really a sign of… — Erik Naggum
Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought or… — Alfred Adler
I have been an actor now for 40 years having worked in over 10 countries and three languages. — Nick Mancuso
Quantum theory was split up into dialects. Different people describe the same experiences in remarkably different languages. This is confusing even to physicists. — David Finkelstein
Poetry transcends the nation-state. Poetry transcends government. It brings the traditional concept of power to its knees. I have always believed poetry to be an… — Sam Hamill
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate,… — George Saintsbury

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