Father Quote by Daryl Davis

My father spoke several languages and he had hundreds of books.

— Michele Lamy

“He spoke 29 languages, including Greek, Arabic, Persian, Icelandic, Turkish, Swahili, Hindi, and a host of other European, Asian, and African tongues.”

— Michael Rank

My father had barely any education. He could hardly write or count. But his great pride was that he was perfectly bilingual. In the…

— Robert Lepage

He cared for languages dead long enough that they wouldn’t change on him.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

— Jose Rizal

Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring…

— Edward R. Murrow

As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“(Rigg) had often complained that all these languages were useless, and Father had only said, "A man who speaks but one language understands none.”

— Orson Scott Card

No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to…

— Thomas Jefferson

“When he had gone only a short distance, he realized that, while they were erecting the stall, one of them had spoken Arabic and…

— Paulo Coelho

I was very adept at acquiring languages.

— Anna Held

Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe