Their Own Language Quotes
24 quotes by 21 authors
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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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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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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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Hands have their own language.
— Simon Van Booy
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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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The stars have their own language, you know. If you're careful, you can learn it.
— Sarah Jio
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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
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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
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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
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When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.
— Bruno Tonioli
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... 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
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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
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Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent…
— Lady Gregory
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To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language - That's…
— Jimmy Wales
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Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots…
— Mark Twain
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Families are like countries. They have their own language and jokes and secrets and assumptions about the right and wrong ways of doing things, and…
— Roland Merullo
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Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled at him and said laughing: 'Here…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they…
— Lauren Willig
Who Wrote These Their Own Language Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 24 Their Own Language Quotes as follows: