Body Quote by H. Emilie Cady

Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.

— N. Scott Momaday

When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other.

— Donald Hall

“We hear speech as a string of separate words, but unlike the tree falling in the forest with no one to hear it, a…

— Steven Pinker

We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound.

— John Oliver

“Human language, for us moderns, has swung in on itself, turning its back on the beings around us. Language is a human property, suitable…

— David Abram

Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.

— John Sterling

“Spoken words are like seeds that we plant which will eventually grow into something sweet or bitter. Our actions in this life are seeds…

— Shems Friedlander

In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are…

— Steven Pinker

Think of words as instruments characterized by their use, and then think of the use of a hammer, the use of a chisel, the…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The spoken word has come to dominate many Protestant forms of worship: the words of prayers, responsive readings, Scripture, the sermon, and so forth.…

— Marcus J. Borg

Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but…

— Patrick Rothfuss