Buried Quote by Douglas Hyde Download Open image “I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried” — Douglas Hyde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Buried Language Share Wish
After traveling through fourteen foreign countries and appearing before all the royalty and nobility I have only one wish today. That is that when… — Annie Oakley Copy Share Image
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis. Like statist… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything… — Douglas Hyde Copy Share Image
Youth is a period of idealism. The Communists attract young people by appealing directly to that idealism. Too often, others have failed either to… — Douglas Hyde Copy Share Image
By Anglicising ourselves we have thrown away with a light heart the best claim we have upon the world's recognition of us as a… — Douglas Hyde Copy Share Image
The Gaelic League is founded not upon hatred of England, but upon love of Ireland. Hatred is a negative passion; it is powerful -… — Douglas Hyde Copy Share Image
I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic… — Douglas Hyde Copy Share Image
Every craggy and gnarled tree has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it. — Douglas Hyde Copy Share Image
As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture;… — Douglas Hyde Copy Share Image
Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it. — Douglas Hyde Copy Share Image
Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
A classic is like a hidden treasure. Its core is buried under so many layers of varnish that it can be reached only by… — Jean-Louis Barrault Copy Share Image
What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried. — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
I think it's important not to grow up too fast. I'm 26 now, and I still can't wait for Christmas Day. The inner seven-year-old… — Laura Haddock Copy Share Image
As soon as I turned the key I saw it hanging, the color of fire and sunset. the colour of flamboyant flowers. ‘If you… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
While the prosecution has said this is about the defendants lies, one worries that those lies already have been buried under too much discussion… — David Berg Copy Share Image
With every rising of the sun Think of your life as just begun. The past has shrived and buried deep All yesterdays— there let… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
As I write, Johnny Rotten's first moments in "Anarchy in the U.K." - a rolling earthquake of a laugh, a buried shout, then hoary… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
With education symmetrical and true we will take the dead mass buried by slavery's hand and touch them to life. This beauteous angel, which… — William Tecumseh Vernon Copy Share Image