Our Language Quotes

100 quotes by 92 authors

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers. — Cesar Chavez
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
Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer comes from the… — Dwight L. Moody
Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single term by which… — Charles Babbage
It is often said that experiments should be made without preconceived ideas. That is impossible. Not only would it make every experiment fruitless, but even… — Henri Poincare
If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and… — Jacques Chirac
To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym. — Arthur Schopenhauer
For the 99 percent of the time we've been on Earth, we were hunter and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the fine, small details… — Janine Benyus
When I consider the multitude of associated forces which are diffused through nature - when I think of that calm balancing of their energies which… — Michael Faraday
We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it… — Benjamin Lee Whorf
If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all nations, kindreds… — Frederick Douglass
The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. — George Orwell
It seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four letter word. — Tom Cruise
Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that. — Glenn Close
I AM happyâ€. They understood what we english people have long forgot. We're not our sadness. We're not our happiness or our pain but our… — Grant Morrison
It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did… — John Humphrys
It is striking how our language reveals the visual nature of our thoughts about the future state of affairs. When we invent the future, we… — James M. Kouzes
The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its… — Thomas B. Macaulay
The other creatures with which we share this world have their rights too, but not speaking our language, they have no voice, no vote; it… — Roger Tory Peterson
When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered,… — Audre Lorde

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