Effort Quote by Russell Hoban

We not only speak but think and even dream in words. Language is a mirror in which the whole spiritual development of mankind reflects…

— Ernest Klein

I think language is a system that we have devised to negotiate a series of more amorphous entities. It's a layer you can use…

— Blake Butler

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

— Rita Mae Brown

Language is the archives of history.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible…

— Gertrude Stein

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

— Joseph Brodsky

Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses.

— Storm Jameson

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

— Laura Schlessinger

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

— Alice Walker

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

Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring…

— Edward R. Murrow

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

— Linda Hogan