Own Language Quotes
76 quotes by 70 authors
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Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the…
— Charles Baudelaire
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We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people -…
— Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign…
— Max von Sydow
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Every man prays in his own language.
— Duke Ellington
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I type a 101 words a minute. But it's in my own language.
— Mitch Hedberg
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Archaeological materials are not mute. They speak their own language. And they need to be used for the great source they are to help unravel…
— Marija Gimbutas
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What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language?
— John Vaillant
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You may buy from me in your own language, but sell to me in mine.
— Willy Brandt
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All Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language are called Celts,…
— Julius Caesar
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Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and…
— Margaret Mahy
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Before I got into politics, I wanted to be a missionary to people in the Middle East. I thought it would be better to speak…
— Jonathan Krohn
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Die Mathematiker sind eine Art Franzosen. Spricht man zu ihnen, so übersetzen sie alles in ihre eigene Sprache, und so wird es alsobald etwas ganz…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to render a verbal…
— Gaston Bachelard
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Hands have their own language.
— Simon Van Booy
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This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Strange bent over these things, with a concentration to rival Minervois's own, questioning, criticizing and proposing. Strange and the two engravers spoke French to each…
— Susanna Clarke
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Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
— Duke Ellington
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Ideas come from the Earth. They come from every human experience that you’ve either witnessed or have heard about, translated into your brain in your…
— Rod Serling
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Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.
— John Ciardi
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We have our own language. Christianese... We don't say 'He's out of his mind,' no, we say 'That's our youth pastor.
— Tim Hawkins
Who Wrote These Own Language Quotes
70 authors contributed a total of 76 Own Language Quotes, led by these top contributors: