Programming Quote by Norman Davies

A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact…

— Edward Sapir

Languages are the pedigree of nations.

— Samuel Johnson

I think most of the world would like to be Scottish. All the Americans who come here never look for English blood or Welsh,…

— Joanna Lumley

The country has already become multicultural. Given immigration trends, it will only grow more diverse, and these new Americans want to share in their…

— Tom Gjelten

We inhabit a language rather than a country.

— Emile M. Cioran

How amazing that the language of a few thousand savages living on a fog-encrusted island in the North Sea should become the language of…

— Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley

A people without a language of its own is only half a nation. A nation should guard its language more than its territories, 'tis…

— Thomas Davis

Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club -the community…

— Frank Smith

The funny thing is, nationalism only could have come about in Europe after the invention of printing. You could have this thing that was…

— Ben Katchor

No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Translating one region's works for another region has a beauty with an inborn connect. We might speak different languages but our culture and history…

— Gulzar

No nation can survive without passing its heritage, language and, yes, faith to the next generation. A country must be built on something substantial…

— Cal Thomas