Country Quote by Susan Griffin

We inhabit a language rather than a country.

— Emile M. Cioran

Language is the only homeland.

— Anonymous

It's fascinating when you're from another place, but you don't speak the language.

— Marcus Samuelsson

A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.

— Anne Carson

Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.

— Jeanette Winterson

“If you know all the languages of the world and you don't know your mother tongue or the language of your culture, that is…

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

One doesn't live in a country, one lives in a language.

— Emile M. Cioran

Everyone knows the idea of moving to another country is really hard, but when you're actually in the situation - and you don't know…

— Lotic

It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.

— Frances Mayes

There's a tremendous amount of language loss. Most of the attention is given to indigenous languages, which makes sense, but some of the most…

— Noam Chomsky

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in…

— Thornton Wilder

English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.

— Vaclav Havel