George Santayana Quotes

Language and identity are so fundamentally intertwined. You peel back all the layers in terms of what we wear and what we eat and all the things that mark us, and in the end, what we have are our words.

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

I speak two languages, Body and English.

I speak to the Spanish players that we have in Spanish.

I think in French, but I get angry in Spanish.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language.

Language is a social art.

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.

A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.

Seize every opportunity of learning to converse in the vulgar tongues spoken in your realm. It is unworthy of a prince to be unable without an interpreter to hold intercourse with his people…. The ties that bind monarch and people should be woven of mutual affection, and how is this possible where free and intelligible communication cannot exist?

Language allows one to crack the code of culture

My music was about travelling a lot and connecting with other people, and English is the voice of travelling.

My mother introduced to me as a child the world of language: the way in which translation can be a system by which you can understand others.

It's always lovely to know new languages.

Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world.

My father could swear in Gaelic and English, by the way, ladies and gentlemen.

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

My use of language is part and parcel of my message.

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

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

You couldn't have human society without language.