Native Language Quotes
16 quotes by 14 authors
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Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being…
— Casey Miller
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We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to…
— Jaron Lanier
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Today, getting people to hear your story on social media, and then act on it, requires using a platform’s native language, paying attention to context,…
— Gary Vaynerchuk
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As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in…
— John Milton
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I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language.
— John Dryden
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A woman who utters such disgusting and depressing noise has no right to be anywhere, no right to live. Remember that you are a human…
— Rex Harrison
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No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Post-​wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several…
— Leslie Jamison
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We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.
— Benjamin Lee Whorf
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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his…
— George Stigler
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Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all French-Canadian s abroad…
— Jack Kerouac
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Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of…
— George Bernard Shaw
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It was hard for me to do the show (All American Girl) because a lot of people didn't even understand the concept of Asian-American. I…
— Margaret Cho
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They're on their way to the foreign-language wing. That's no surprise. The foreign kids are always here, like they need to breathe air scented with…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
Who Wrote These Native Language Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 16 Native Language Quotes as follows: