One Language Quotes

58 quotes by 54 authors

It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on… — W G Sebald
Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there… — Miguel de Cervantes
When all men were of one language, some of them built a high tower, as if they would thereby ascend up to heaven, but the… — Josephus
I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get… — Juliana Hatfield
It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I believe that our Great Maker is preparing the world, in His own good time, to become one nation, speaking one language, and when armies… — Ulysses S. Grant
An idea does not pass from one language to another without change. — Miguel de Unamuno
Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well. — Dick Pound
People in Finland have also adopted me because of my dad, and that's great, but it's the one language I can't speak. — Nico
If you listen to the urban speech patterns in India you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one language, go through… — Salman Rushdie
But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with… — Theodore Roosevelt
It is an absolute privilege to be able to speak another language and have it be something you grew up with. I think it's a… — Lucy Liu
Bilingualism is not an imposition on the citizens. The citizens can go on speaking one language or six languages, or no languages if they so… — Pierre Trudeau
Interpreting at its core is taking in one language and putting out the other. — Jennifer Abbott
Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world. — Enrique Iglesias
The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there… — Al Sharpton
When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home and see that… — Sonia Sotomayor
I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs… — Sting
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of… — Ezra Pound
Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from… — Miguel de Cervantes

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