Clarence Darrow Quotes

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

My opinion is that more languages you speak, better it is, but when you come to America, you speak English.

It's always lovely to know new languages.

My children speak very good Chinese, and they translate for our American friends.

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.

I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life.

It definitely sharpened my interest in language, the way people used language, slang words, speech patterns. There's a big advantage to being the outsider.

I think it's important if you're American to have a second language, and Spanish is the language to have.

I feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language.

Language is a social art.

I'm about as monolingual as you come, but nevertheless, I have a variety of different languages at my command, different styles, different ways of talking, which do involve different parameter settings.

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

My CIA godfather told me he'd never heard any American speak Japanese so well.

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.

And I'm walking along and we're laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one we called the leader, had some knowledge of English, although limited.

I was always influenced by language.

I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about.

I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.

Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.

I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years.

I speak two languages, Body and English.