Alive Quote by Rita Mae Brown

Every time another tribe becomes extinct and their language dies, another way of life and another way of understanding the world disappears forever. Even…

— Stephen Corry

Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to…

— David Crystal

Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.

— S. I. Hayakawa

As humans we speak one language...

— Avril Lavigne

When a language die we don't know what we lose with language.

— Patricia Ryan

There's nothing unusual about a single language dying. But what's going on today is extraordinary when we compare the situation to what has happened…

— David Crystal

Languages are dying at an unprecedented rate. A language dies every 14 days.

— Patricia Ryan

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Language is by its very nature a communal thing...

— T. E. Hulme

“When a language dies, a possible world dies with it.”

— George Steiner

Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner.

— John Dewey

A writer can have only one language, if language is going to mean anything to him.

— Philip Larkin