Born Quote by Fulton J. Sheen

“Grammar is the breathing power for the life of language”

— Munia Khan

If we are not most careful with our thoughts and speech, the words we use will use us. Language has its own ethics, and…

— Ted E. Brewerton

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

— Victor Hugo

Language makes it possible for a child to incorporate his parents' verbal prohibitions, to make them part of himself…We don't speak of a conscience…

— Selma Fraiberg

Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

— Gabriela Mistral

“It is a remarkable phenomenon that children can learn to speak without ever being consciously aware of the sophisticated grammar they are using.”

— Timothy Gowers

Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.

— Anthony Burgess

“All I know about grammar is its infinite power.”

— Joan Didion

Grammar is the grave of letters.

— Elbert Hubbard

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible…

— Madame de Stael

“There is no enduring emotion without syntax. Immortality depends on the grammarians.”

— Fernando Pessoa