Language Quotes
Mama had an appreciation of the language. She taught me a love of words, of how they should be used and how they can fill a creative soul with a passion and lead to a life’s work.
Lewis GrizzardLewis Grizzard I’m often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.
Rita OraRita Ora The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself).
Roland BarthesRoland Barthes Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
Quincy JonesQuincy Jones Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
Alexandre DumasAlexandre Dumas Languages are true analytical methods.
Antoine LavoisierAntoine Lavoisier All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
Antonin ArtaudAntonin Artaud Prayers have no boundaries. They can leap miles and continents and be translated instantly into any language.
Billy GrahamBilly Graham For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
Alexandre DumasAlexandre Dumas Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.
Bruce SpringsteenBruce Springsteen It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an audience beyond that language through the art of translation.
Ngugi wa Thiong'oNgugi wa Thiong'o I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
Sophia LorenSophia Loren Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
Alan KayAlan Kay My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there’s the reality: there’s no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God.
Seamus HeaneySeamus Heaney That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.
Maria MontessoriMaria Montessori