Language Quotes
To hate a man because he was born in another country, because he speaks a different language, or because he takes a different view of this subject or that, is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human... Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity.John Comenius
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.Martha Graham
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.George Bernard Shaw
Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably togethe.Clyde Kluckhohn
The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.Ernest Hemingway
Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.J. Martin Kohe
Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself.Franz Xavier Kroetz
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.James Earl Jones
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.Christopher Morley
Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.Christopher Morley
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.Mark Twain
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.Vincent Van Gogh
Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.Mark Hopkins, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagne
Perhaps of all the creations of man, language is the most astonishing.Gyles Lytton Sitrachy
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.Kahlil Gibran
What is important - what lasts - In another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.Peter Brodie
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.Doug Larson
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.Carl Sandburg, New York Times Feb. 13, 1959
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.Jeremy Taylo
England and America are two countries seperated by the same language.George Bernard Shaw
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.Robert Benchley
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.Benjamin Franklin
The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.J. Michael Straczynski
Our common language is... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non - English - Speaking children learn this common language.William John Bennett
Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more. You should never wish to do less.Robert E. Lee
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.Mark Twain
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.Samuel Johnson
Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.Field Marshall John French
Duty, then, is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less.Robert E. Lee
We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.Eric Hoffe
Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.Ralph Waldo Emerson
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.Author Unknown
Language is the dress of thought.Samuel Johnson
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.Benjamin Lee Whorf
The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.Sam Rayburn
