Quote by Colum McCann

“...language is sacred. It has glory, even in ordinary speech. The way most people use it, it's like a winged horse pulling a junk…

— Robert K. Tanenbaum

“To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.”

— Anthony Burgess

“I believe language is infinitely malleable, a live being in our hands, which deserves our great respect and curiosity”

— Brian Kiteley

“What the survival of threatened languages means, perhaps, is the endurance of dozens, hundreds, thousands of subtly different notions of truth.”

— Mark Abley

“Language only has the lack of imagination as a barrier.”

— Anthony T. Hincks

“Words are traitors, for language tends to impose more logic than there is logic in life, and that the most precious in us is…

— Anonymous

“Learning a language is one of the tangible endeavors to help eliminate hate from the world.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Language is a bountiful gift and its usage, an elaboration of community and society, is a sacred work.”

— Muriel Barbery

“Ordinary language was a form of life that needed - and permitted - nothing beyond itself. Humans were figures in a world they had…

— Anonymous

“There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language,”

— Ava Dellaira

“Languages are like beings: they thrive, take a dive, and need care to survive.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

“Language by its very nature is naive,we make it complex and naughty. We make it look and sound like what it is not.”

— Nahiyan bin Asadullah