Category Quote by Rebecca Solnit

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

— Mouloud Benzadi

“Language is a bountiful gift and its usage, an elaboration of community and society, is a sacred work.”

— Muriel Barbery

“There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language,”

— Ava Dellaira

“...language is sacred. It has glory, even in ordinary speech. The way most people use it, it's like a winged horse pulling a junk…

— Robert K. Tanenbaum

“What the survival of threatened languages means, perhaps, is the endurance of dozens, hundreds, thousands of subtly different notions of truth.”

— Mark Abley

“A language is a means of communication and should be lived rather than taught.”

— Benny Lewis

“languages. Notice how they almost make sense, some of them.’ ‘Yes, and that’s”

— Vernor Vinge

“The most aggressive and therefore the most dangerous words in the languages of the world are to be found in the assertion I AM.”

— Donald Woods Winnicott

“We need to write in a language that they can read.”

— Saad Ireland

“The point in all this is that language is a handy whipping boy to summon and belabor when we have failed in some serious…

— Chinua Achebe

“We have an obligation to use language. To push ourselves: to find out what words mean and how to deploy them, to communicate clearly,…

— Neil Gaiman

“Language is a bountiful gift and its usage, an elaboration of community and society, is a sacred work. Language and usage evolve over time:…

— Muriel Barbery