Add Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

— Anonymous

There is a language beyond human language, an elemental language, one that arises from the land itself.

— Linda Hogan

“Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Rita Mae Brown

Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the…

— Carmen Boullosa

Ordinary language embodies the metaphysics of the Stone Age.

— J. L. Austin

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

“We are the creature of language, and through language we affirm ourselves, we find out about the world, including ourselves, through words, and we…

— Robert Coles

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

“Languages are like beings: they thrive, take a dive, and need care to survive.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus…

— Auguste Comte

A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture,…

— Jawaharlal Nehru