Birth Quote by Russell Baker

Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.

— David Crystal

There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Language is a social institution.

— RMKATTA

“The 20th century linguistic revolution is the recognition that language is not merely a device for communicating ideas about the world, but rather a…

— Oliver Benjamin

Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler…

— Charlton Laird

“Six thousand years ago, there were no fully developed writing systems at all though there were, maybe, twenty thousand fully developed languages. (Yes, there…

— Mark David Ledbetter

Language is an old-growth forest of the mind.

— Wade Davis

Language is a social art.

— Willard Van Orman Quine

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and…

— Joshua Foer

“Languages have complicated family trees, you know—mixed marriages, stepchildren, even bastards. There are countless scandals in the history of languages, many murders, much incest.”

— Lauren Kate

Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented.

— Guy Deutscher

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