Quotes of: English-language Keyword

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

Preston Manning

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

Flora Lewis

Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language to dealing with prejudice.

Hank Johnson

I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities.

Elif Safak

I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French.

Francois Hollande

To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.

Criss Jami

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.

Herb Ritts

When the heart is down and the soul is heavy, the eyes can only speak the language of tears

Ikechukwu Izuakor

I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.

I. King Jordan

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

Joseph Brodsky

Having a facility for language is an important part of being an author.

Elizabeth George

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

Eric Hoffer

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.

Bernard Pivot

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.

Carol P. Christ

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

George Steiner

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.

Howard Hodgkin

When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered.

John O'Donohue

The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.

John Wesley Powell

Kindness is a language more often misunderstood than taken at face value.

Joyce Rachelle