Killing Quote by Mary Rose O'Reilley

I dont ever educate people by teaching English, I just make them realize what really is it? and nothing else.

— Vikrant Parsai

“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just…

— James D. Nicoll

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the…

— Louise Erdrich

Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally…

— George Orwell

With all the divisive forces tearing at our country, we need the glue of language to help hold us together. If we want to…

— Bob Dole

So what's really behind the 'English Only' Movement? Fear. Fear of being taken over and one day they will have to learn something different.…

— Cheech Marin

Much of the rest of the world has already learned some English. They pretty much understand the American way of doing things, because our…

— Bill Vaughan

There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Why can't the English teach their children how…

— Alan Jay Lerner

“educators of English learners should be well-versed in theories of second language acquisition and in methodologies such as sheltering and scaffolding. Their work should…

— James Crawford

If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our language away…

— Daniel Tammet

“The fact that in the twentieth century a greater proportion of the people in the world could communicate with one another, using English or…

— Andrew Dalby

Unlike our neighbours on the mainland of Europe, we have resisted creating an academy to legislate over proper English. We each have our linguistic…

— Susie Dent