Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

They say that immigrants don’t speak English. So? Who cares. Even the Irish learned English after a while.

I am critical of the parochial understanding of the Francophone movement and feel that it is used as a justification for not learning the language of the “other”. Those who respect the “other” are those who know them, and those who reject the language of the “other” are at a disadvantage. Learning the language of the “other” does not contradict our rejection of the dominance of their language, which is quite valid in my opinion.

Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

I have people who say, 'You should dress up like this, or you should dress more modest; you should cover up more.' And then, at the other end of the spectrum, you have, like, 'Why are you still wearing your scarf? You're in America, you know.'

When you hear somebody speaking in an accent, it's almost like they're invading your language while they're speaking to you because if you hear someone speak another language, you almost don't care. But when they speak your language with an accent, it feels like an invasion of something that belongs to you. And, immediately, we change.

Learning another language is like becoming another person.

Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.

For someone like me and my generation, you had to speak French to be sophisticated, you had to be lighter-skinned.

The purity of Jewish upbringing - the restrictions that one carries through life being a 'nice Jewish girl' - what a burden.

To get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj.

To possess another language is to possess another soul.

They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues.

Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven't any to speak of.

Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with

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.

The German language is the organ among the languages.

A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.

If you love language, it will love you back.

I feel my poetry has contributed through all these languages that I needed to learn leading up to English.

Language is the most elementary aspect to our humanness, probably. In addition to that, it's the embodiment, it's the apotheosis of the human experience, it's the way we summarize ourselves.

If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.

So there I was, with the two hottest girls on campus, having lunch. I was "the man", the envy of every other guy in our school. Buddy, I was miserable." -Bryce Loski

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.