Amish Tripathi Quotes

I'm against the idea of force-feeding all of Canada on two languages.

So what's really behind the 'English Only' Movement? Fear. Fear of being taken over and one day they will have to learn something different. Heaven forbid they would have to learn something new.

When California passes a law saying that English is the official language, it can only mean one thing: That English is no longer the official language.

I'm half Telugu. My mom is Telugu and dad, a Maharashtrian. I was brought up in Gwalior. I was exposed to English, Hindi, and Marathi. I heard my mom speak to her family in Telugu, so I got the hang of it.

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.

You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I never understood that. My parents always had me speak Spanish first knowing I was going to speak English in school.

People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.

I am not anti-English, and I never was.

I grew up having two different perspectives - one in English, one in Spanish. Two different cultures, very different - but I think that, to me, it's one. I'm just as American as I feel Latin.

I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.

One of the biggest problems is - you know, I've got some Hispanic friends - is that a lot of those folks that don't know English, is primarily because they don't even know Spanish. They don't even know their own language.

Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been.

I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.

Insist on one language. English for all Americans.

It is asked of me that I give my first speech in this house in a language [English] other than my mother tongue [French.] …. Even if I knew English as intimately as I knew French, I would still give my first speech in the language of my French Canadian compatriots

Bilingualism is not an imposition on the citizens - it is an imposition on the state.

The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those who feel they cannot do without English can as well pack up and go.

English is my first language, but musically speaking, I write my music in Spanish.

Bilingualism is a great asset for any individual, but it has perilous consequences for a nation.

I realized over the years if I'm writing about humor, irony, satire, I much prefer to do that in English. And if there is sorrow, melancholy, longing, I much prefer to do that in Turkish. Each language has its own strength to me, and I feel connected and attached to both Turkish and English. I dream in more than one language.

Bilingualism used to have an undeservedly bad reputation; then it got an undeservedly exalted one.

It's one thing to be writing in South or Latin America, where, except for Brazil, every country, however small and hard to find on a map, speaks Spanish, but quite another to be writing in, say, Hungary, a landlocked nation of 10 million people, with a language that very few people outside Hungary can read or speak.

Since I grew up in Palakkad, I am comfortable speaking both Tamil and Malayalam.

I am opposed to the idea of dubbing films into Kannada.

It is an absolute privilege to be able to speak another language and have it be something you grew up with. I think it's a very important thing and I think that everywhere else in the world people speak more than one language.