Emily Carr Quotes

She would sit by herself in the middle of the old stoe amphitheatre, with the sky's starry vault overhead, and simply listen to the great silence around her.

I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.

I've been a loner all my life, so it didn't bother me that Hungarian was my first language and that I had to learn English. I had a pretty heavy accent in junior high school and would say things like 'wolume control' instead of 'volume control.'

I had to do a lot of studying 'cause I had to learn new languages all the time. So it was a little bit painful watching other kids play outside, and I'm stuck at home learning something.

Because education is such a broad area, I chose to focus on language learning.

Adventure today means finding one's way back to the silence and stillness of a thousand years ago.

I named this place Listening Point because only when one comes to listen, only when one is aware and still, can things be seen and heard. Everyone has a listening point somewhere. It does not have to be in the north or close to the wilderness, but someplace of quiet where the universe can be contemplated with awe.

To learn a new language is, therefore, always a sort of spiritual adventure; it is like a journey of discovery in which we find a new world.

Silence is so powerful, so important. There is so much to be learned from it.

Have you ever noticed how quiet you get when you go in the woods? It's almost like you know that God's there.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

I love to see new things, and I love to learn. I always learn so much when I travel - that's the best thing.

I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

I want to be able to speak every language. If I could have any talent and I get to choose it, and be naturally gifted and speak every language. It's not going to happen, but it sure would be nice. It's a good wish.

By not going to school I learned that the world is a beautiful place and needs to be discovered.

I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get fluent. I think it'd be tragic to go through life only knowing one language.

Always, as a child, I would go around the house, and if I found a word that I didn't know the meaning of, I would write it down and ask my parents to define it and try to memorise it.

There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English.

Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.

You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.