Welsh Proverb Quotes

Every nation has its own language as well as its own temperament.

The greatest guarantee for the preservation of a person’s identity is language and faith, and all Armenians must carry these two values.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

There is a pride in speaking this language.

A nation is the totality of people who speak the same language.

Cultural goods … are the source of the Nation's identity, continuity and development.

Nationhood is not founded on religion but blood ties, a common culture and homeland.

Our Constitution has affirmed that Gaelic is the national language. Yet there is scarcely one person in a thousand throughout Ireland who cannot speak English and scarcely one in ten who can speak Irish easily.

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

The homeland affects you directly: it affects your body; it affects the collective mind and the collective heart and the collective spirit.

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.

The Sami, as an indigenous people, as well as the Roma and other groups, have the right to maintain and develop their own language and culture.

The day a race ceases to express its thought and its sentiments in that language which has grown with it and which took form with its ethnic temperament, it is lost as a race. The preservation of its language is absolutely necessary to the preservation of the race, of its genius, its character and it's temperament.

A nation is a work of art and a work of time.

Languages are the pedigrees of nations.

It is asked of me that I give my first speech in this house in a language [English] other than my mother tongue [French.] …. Even if I knew English as intimately as I knew French, I would still give my first speech in the language of my French Canadian compatriots

Nationalism is spiritual and all-embracing, in the sense that it opens its arms to and spreads its wings over all those who have shared with the Arabs their history and have lived in the environment of their language and culture for generations, so that they have become Arab in thought and feeling. There is no fear that nationalism will clash with religion, for, like religion, it flows from the heart and issues from the will of God; they walk arm in arm, supporting each other, especially when religion represents the genius of the nationality and is in harmony with its nature.

The greatest guarantee for the preservation of a person’s identity is language and faith, and all Armenians must carry these two values.

At home we always converse in Oriya.

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.

My homeland is the portuguese language.

He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language.

Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name.