Language Quote by Tiffany Reisz

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

— Henry David Thoreau

"Writing" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.

— Lawrence Lessig

It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways, too. For…

— Richard Leakey

The soul is something which contains the body. The body doesn't contain the soul. The soul, if we put it into modern language, is…

— Alan Watts

Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction…

— Maturin Murray Ballou

“Kay and Beverly were a disappointment to me. They worked hard at Modern Languages, but their conversation and preoccupations seemed hardly different from those…

— Alice Munro

Modern language must be older than the cave paintings and cave engravings and cave sculptures and dance steps in the soft clay in the…

— Murray Gell-Mann

I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is, by knowing…

— Lord Chesterfield

In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required.

— W. H. Auden

Economic analysis is the first principle of Marxism. Professors who were genuine leftists would have challenged the entire economics-driven machinery of American academe the…

— Camille Paglia

I believe there is no liturgy in the world, either in ancient or modern language, which breathes more of a solid, scriptural, rational piety,…

— John Wesley

what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History;…

— Thomas Jefferson