Quote by Kate Fox

Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.

— Sara Sheridan

“Linguists are no different from any other people who spend more than nineteen hours a day pondering the complexities of grammar and its relationship…

— Ronald Langacker

In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.

— Adrienne Rich

The point is there is more information now then you can pass along comfortably in an oral tradition, say a strictly speaking culture. That…

— Jerry Garcia

Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.

— N. Scott Momaday

“Oh, those lapses, darling. So many of us walk around letting fly with “errors.” We could do better, but we’re so slovenly, so rushed…

— John H. McWhorter

I think once you understand a language, you understand the culture surrounding it as well.

— Petr Cech

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

I've studied my culture deeply and I'm very aware of my tradition.

— Fela Kuti

Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression

— Amos Bronson Alcott

I never thought of that one, that linguistics could be driving cultural things. There are some thoughts that that does happen in humans, that…

— Hal Whitehead

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should

— Clifford Geertz