Ifs Quote by Toni Morrison Download Open image “If we had no language we'd have nothing.” — Toni Morrison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ifs Language
Without language we would have no reason, without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind nor bond… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
We have only the language for fun and miserable, and maybe we need language for deep and shallow, meaningful and meaningless. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words? — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
There are ideas it will be easy to say in the future that we just don't have the language for now. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language. — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Language is, in other words, not necessary, but voluntary. If it were necessary, it would have stayed simple; it would not agitate our hearts… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it? — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“You looked at them and wondered why the were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
All she saw, down in the cellar well beneath the stoop, was a light yellow feather with a tip of green. And she had… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Hate does that. Burns off everything but itself, so whatever your grievance is, your face looks just like your enemy's.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“You know how a star is supposed to twinkle? We say twinkle because that is how it looks, but when a star feels itself,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
