Ancient Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and…

— Emile M. Cioran

German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter…

— Franz Kafka

I sing in Hungarian. I read Hungarian. I do not pretend to speak Hungarian, but I sing in languages that I have studied as…

— Jessye Norman

My mother tongue is German.

— Herta Muller

Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language... it is quite demanding because…

— Tom Wlaschiha

“The joy of knowing a foreign language is inexpressible. I find it really difficult to express such joy in my mother tongue.”

— Munia Khan

The tongue is very powerful. It could manipulate or deteriorate the mind, body and soul with its choice of words, and/or its choice of…

— Lucas Hunter

My favourite language, actually, is Czech, just because it's so colourful. We have so many combinations, words, and expressions. I have to say there…

— Petr Cech

I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also…

— Peter Høeg

“I knew you'd be pleased. But I beg of you: don't write things like 'The fox was orally fixated all afternoon.' There are so…

— Noémi Szécsi

I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there.

— Martina Hingis

Mama had an appreciation of the language. She taught me a love of words, of how they should be used and how they can…

— Lewis Grizzard