Own Language Quotes

76 Own Language quotes by 66 unique authors

The stars have their own language, you know. If you're careful, you can learn it. — Sarah Jio
Talk to Allah in your own language with your heart fully present. Allah doesn't need you to rhyme or speak arabic. — Omar Suleiman
If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be — Mahatma Gandhi
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language. — Paul de Man
Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do. — Unknown Author
New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances.… — Daniel Hannan
The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They… — Mark Twain
Many women, particularly young women, have claimed the right to use the most explicit sex terms, including extremely vulgar ones, in public as well as… — Margaret Mead
Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste,… — Augustine Birrell
The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer'… — Jimmy Wales
Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language. — Leo Ornstein
In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all. — Edward Sapir
When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are. — Bruno Tonioli
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. — Thomas Bulfinch
... while infants will sync with the human voice regardless of language, they later become habituated to the rhythms of their own language and culture… — Edward T. Hall
In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language. — Peter Zumthor
I would say that jazz is my own language. — Amy Winehouse
I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language. — Nadine Labaki
The plain people, hereafter as in the past, will continue to make their own language, and the best that grammarians can do is to follow… — H. L. Mencken
We always translate the other person's language into our own language. — Milton H. Erickson

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