Being different Quote by Sonia Sotomayor

Everyone is used to speaking a slightly different "language" with their parents than with their peers, because spoken language changes every generation - like…

— Elif Batuman

It is an absolute privilege to be able to speak another language and have it be something you grew up with. I think it's…

— Lucy Liu

When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.

— Bruno Tonioli

So, rather than becoming multicultural, rather than becoming a person of several languages, rather than becoming confident in your knowledge of the world, you…

— Richard Rodriguez

Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is…

— Anonymous

When I was 13 I made a youth national team and we went on a trip to Europe. It was the first time that…

— Jesse Marsch

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

I've lived a lot with people who speak different languages.

— Alice Rohrwacher

The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself. It's like being blind. You aren't less of a person, but you're…

— Sandra Cisneros

As a child, it was really hard because I'd be thrown into a new school and have to make new friends, or I'd sit…

— Alexander Dreymon

It comes from within to not be ashamed of our brothers and sisters who have accents.

— Jimmy O. Yang

I grew up in a house where language was appreciated and cared about. I'm sure that, although I wasn't aware of it at the…

— Marian Seldes