Clumsy Quote by Joy Kogawa

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

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

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 is the tool of the tools

— Lev S. Vygotsky

A language is everything you do.

— Margaret Atwood

...words are some of the most powerful and important things I know....Language is the tool of love and the weapon of hatred. It's the…

— Ani DiFranco

Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of…

— Alice McDermott

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 not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys,…

— Anonymous

A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. ¦ Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.

— Anonymous

Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and…

— Edward Hirsch

Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of…

— Martin Heidegger