American life Quote by S. I. Hayakawa

One of the special beauties of America is that it is the only country in the world where you are not advised to learn…

— Quentin Crisp

Americans don't care what your language is, your race is, whatever. Everyone is there to do their own thing and be successful. I wish…

— Vinnie Jones

Much of the rest of the world has already learned some English. They pretty much understand the American way of doing things, because our…

— Bill Vaughan

Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally…

— George Orwell

There is always that age-old thing about England and America being divided by a common language. You think that because we speak English and…

— Rowan Atkinson

The language skill in the U.S. for the most part has been awful. Many Americans don't learn any foreign language.

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

Even if people are suspicious of the motives I think that learning and speaking two languages can only be a good thing for people.

— Stephen Harper

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

We're in a long line of English people pretending to be Americans and not being as good as Americans.

— Winston Marshall

We're very concerned with language and how language works. We're trying to engage people rather than dictate how they should be thinking.

— Neville Brody

Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English.

— Alan Siegel

When you get into the third or fourth generation of Latino immigrants to the United States, you see the kids speaking more English than…

— Thalia