George Carlin 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.

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.

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

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

Everybody wants to say who they are and where they're from. And the easiest and cheapest and most universal way of doing that is through their accent.

Language is very important to me.

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.

Language transcends us and yet we speak.

Language is the chief means and index of a nation's progress.

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

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.

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

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

You couldn't have human society without language.

Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.

I was born in Scotland and have lived there all my life. I speak conversational Cantonese with my dad when I'm at home, and very basic Mandarin.

Language is a social art.

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.

I do not speak Hebrew, but I understand that it has no word for 'history.' The closest word for it is memory.

Letters and other characters—alphabets, syllabaries, signs and codes—hold nations together.