Bilingualism Quote by S. I. Hayakawa Download Open image “Bilingualism for the individual is fine, but not for a country.” — S. I. Hayakawa ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bilingualism Bilingualism Individual Country Fine Fine Country Identity Individual Individual Fine Language Patriotism
Bilingualism is a great asset for any individual, but it has perilous consequences for a nation. — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
Bilingualism is not an imposition on the citizens. The citizens can go on speaking one language or six languages, or no languages if they… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
That's what I mean by being bilingual: comfortable in your skin, comfortable with all parts of who you are. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
My wife and I have spent most of our lives in France, and we are both pretty well bilingual, my wife more purely than… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different… — Santiago Cabrera Copy Share Image
I think we are living in an age where we really need to have bilingual leaders so that we can communicate with our constituents. — Aja Brown Copy Share Image
The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit. — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The English Language Amendment says above all, 'Let's see to it that our children, our young people, learn English. Let us not deny them… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress,… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers of smaller… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully realize that… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place. — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
“The virtually unanimous support of bilingualism among Hispanic activists, “leaders” and “spokesmen”—in contrast to Hispanic parents—is understandable only in terms of the self-interest of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
Bilingualism is a great asset for any individual, but it has perilous consequences for a nation. — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs in society; the old language… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
“There are those who eagerly learn another language to be one with another culture, then there are those morons who insist on the exclusive… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Bilingualism is not an imposition on the citizens. The citizens can go on speaking one language or six languages, or no languages if they… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
“how bilingualism has been shown to benefit • bilingual children’s precocious knowledge of language, • their enhanced cognitive development in general, and • the… — Barbara Zurer Pearson Copy Share Image
Bilingualism opens doors and provides opportunity to our children so they can shine and become successful in a labor market that is increasingly competitive… — Luis Fortuno Copy Share Image
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