Language Quotes

I found that if I sang a line using the consonants, vowels, shadings, and inflection we recognize as human language sounds, people responded as if I were talking to them.

There is a pride in speaking this language.

French was my first language.

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

All translation is a compromise – the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It’s a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.