The common language shared by every one in this world is the cry which only our mothers understood
Gopichand Lagadapatiwhen a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.
George SteinerAs advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
George WillThe quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
J. Michael StraczynskiHow astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.
Jack Gilbert