Century Quote by Joshua Foer

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud…

— Gilbert Highet

I think language is a system that we have devised to negotiate a series of more amorphous entities. It's a layer you can use…

— Blake Butler

Keep in mind that a language is both a map of the world and its own world, with its own shadowlands and crevasses -…

— David Foster Wallace

Language is like soil. However rich, it is subject to erosion, and its fertility is constantly threatened by uses that exhaust itsvitality. It needs…

— Elizabeth Drew

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

— Rita Mae Brown

if there's one thing consistent about language it is that it is constantly changing. The only languages that do not change are those whose…

— Rosalie Maggio

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community…

— Noam Chomsky

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

— Joseph Brodsky

Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.

— Joy Kogawa

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

— Alice Walker

Languages, like our bodies, are in a perpetual flux, and stand in need of recruits to supply those words that are continually falling, through…

— Tom Felton

A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.

— Victor Hugo