Our Language Quotes

100 Our Language quotes by 88 unique authors

What do you call that nice, shiny white metal they use to make sidings and airplanes out of? Aluminum, right? Aluminum, pronounced 'uh-LOO-mih-num', right? Anybody… — Isaac Asimov
As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a… — Bobby Jindal
One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by anything else. Accordingly,… — D. Elton Trueblood
To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant. — Bernard Pivot
It's really sad for me that in the United States the Latino community is losing its culture and language, especially among kids born here -… — Romeo Santos
I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate. — Jane Goodall
Where our language suggests a body and there is none: there, we should like to say, is a spirit. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty. — Yasunari Kawabata
The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it takes concentration, which… — Morris Graves
Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the… — Wayne Thiebaud
By Anglicising ourselves we have thrown away with a light heart the best claim we have upon the world's recognition of us as a seperate… — Douglas Hyde
Putting gloves on the fighters was a symbolic change that suggested that we were now making it a civilized sport, and it was no longer… — Jonathan Gottschall
I think of the irony that in our language [Nepali] the word for love can also mean deceit. — Jane Wilson-Howarth
No word in our language not even "Socialism" has been employed more loosely than " Mysticism ." ... The history of the word begins in… — William Ralph Inge
Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of… — Francois Hollande
As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no… — Douglas Hyde
We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the… — Adrienne Rich
One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.' — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Women and men communicate differently, often on entirely different planes. But just as men have failed us, we have failed them. It has been one… — Norah Vincent
Non-violence means dialogue, using our language, the human language. Dialogue means compromise; respecting each other’s rights; in the spirit of reconciliation there is a real… — Dalai Lama
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit the sort of… — Jane Austen
What happened? Did a house fall on your sister?" I asked. Maybe there was a benefit to our language barrier. She pursed her lips. "You… — Richelle Mead
You came so that you could learn about your dreams," said the old woman. "And dreams are the language of God. When he speaks in… — Paulo Coelho

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