Becoming Quote by Frank Smith

The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life.

— Lewis Thomas

Obviously no language is innate. Take any kid from any race, bring them up in any culture and they will learn the language equally…

— Steven Pinker

“If there's any interaction between genes and languages, it is often languages that influence genes, since linguistic differences between populations lessen the chance of…

— Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each…

— Terence McKenna

It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach to grammar,…

— Niels Kaj Jerne

Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.

— S. I. Hayakawa

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

— Laura Schlessinger

I did not say that language as a completed system emerged in an individual in an instant. But I cannot think of a coherent…

— Noam Chomsky

We are rearing a generation of kids who are more equitable and more understanding about the existence of language variety and why it is…

— David Crystal

You can imagine a different world in which a number of species developed with different genetically determined linguistic systems. It hasn't happened in evolution.…

— Noam Chomsky

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

— Rita Mae Brown

Language develops by interacting with other people talking to you.

— Jean Berko Gleason