Quotes of: Languages Keyword

Over the years, my church gave me passage into a menagerie of exotic words unknown in the South: "introit," "offertory," "liturgy," "movable feast," "the minor elevation," "the lavabo," "the apparition of Lourdes," and hundreds more. Latin deposited ...

My Reading Life

I had many things to say, I did not have the words to say them. Painfully aware of my limitations, I watched helplessly and language became an obstacle. It became clear that it would be necessary to invent a new language... I would pause at every sen...

Night

She was perfect. I knew this the moment she emerged from my body, white and wet and wailing. Beyond the requisite ten fingers and ten toes, the beating heart, the lungs inhaling and exhaling oxygen, my daughter knew how to scream. She knew how to mak...

The Language of Flowers

Marry, don't marry,' Auntie Aya says as we unfold layers of dough to make an apple strudel. Just don't have your babies unless it's .' How do I know if it's necessary?' She stops and stares ahead, her hands gloved in flour. 'Ask yourself, Do I want a...

The Language of Baklava: A Memoir

If this letter system works, it should be reproducible and consistent. If this letter system works, it should be demonstrated in biblical narrative—with consistency. It has. It does. It will. For instance: Daniel interpreted the handwriting on the ...

The Meaning of Hebrew Letters: A Hebrew Language Program for Christians

And there was never a better time to delve for pleasure in language than the sixteenth century, when novelty blew through English like a spring breeze. Some twelve thousand words, a phenomenal number, entered the language between 1500 and 1650, about...

Shakespeare: The World as Stage

On one hand the eternal attraction of man towards femininity (cf. Gn. 2:23) frees in him-or perhaps it should free-a gamut of spiritual-corporal desires of an especially personal and "sharing" nature (cf. analysis of the "beginning"), to which a prop...

Purity of Heart: Reflections on Love and Lust / Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body in Simple Language, Vol. 2

A contemporary Catholic opponent of Martin Luther complained, "Even tailors and shoe-makers – even women and ignorant persons, who could read but little – studied it (the German Bible) with the greatest avidity as the fountain of truth. Some comm...

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

Encouragement requires empathy and seeing the world from your spouse's perspective. We must first learn what is important to our spouse. Only then can we give encouragement. With verbal encouragement, we are trying to communicate, "I know. I care. I ...

The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate

I'd suffered many losses in recent years after my father mother uncle aunt and cousin had all passed away. In her final years my mother often lamented that there was no one alive who had known her as a girl and I was starting to understand how spooke...

One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing

The new mathematics is a sort of supplement to language, affording a means of thought about form and quantity and a means of expression,more exact,compact, and ready than ordinary language. The great body of physical science, a great deal of the esse...

H.G. Wells

Woman means the bone of a man. In the Ga language “Wo” means bone.

Beautiful Quotes

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

Theodore Bikel

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

Gustave Flaubert

It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?

Ken Follett

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

George Henry Lewes

Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.

Thomas Shadwell

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.

The Analects of Confucius

The rhythm of breath may have been our first language.

Afterparty

Clover['s] eyes are full of language.

Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

...there is reinforcement in such familiar back-formations as Chinee from Chinese, Portugee from Portuguese.... (p. 111)

The American Language