Children Quote by Sherman Alexie

“Surrounded by people speaking a different language, our family started talking to each other. We drew into a very small tribe (population: four), who…

— Eloisa James

“Teachers were powerful enough to kill the indigenous languages: they are not powerful enough to bring them back to life.”

— Andrew Dalby

“There was only a language of families, a tongue woven from a lifetime of shared experiences. Its vocabulary consisted of gestures and curt sentences,…

— Courtney Milan

“Thanks to [language], human beings - and we alone - can truly enter and explore the feelings of others. What an extraordinary skill.”

— Naoki Higashida

“Each of us carries a story written in the language of our mothers, still echoing through our bones.”

— Deva Arani

“The more parents talk to their children, even in the earliest moments of life, the better their kids’ linguistic abilities become”

— John Medina

“It was my mother who gave me my voice. She did this, I know now, by clearing a space where my words could fall,…

— Anonymous

“Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and apsirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry or…

— Nelson Mandela

“It happens all too often - people regret that their language and culture are being lost but at the same time decide not to…

— Andrew Dalby

“Mom, I promised to behave. It wasn't easy. I mean, she couldn't help herself. She was all over this hunk of Navajo manhood and…

— Carrie Jones

“No matter where we come from, there is one language we can all speak and understand from birth, the language of the heart, love.”

— Imania Margria

“He knew enough of their language to understand her words. But speaking”

— Mark Wayne McGinnis