Adrienne Rich Quotes

I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people.

There is no language that love does not speak.

As humans we speak one language.

On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.

You need a team that speaks your language.

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

The whole earth was of one language and one speech.

Those who speak the same language are joined to each other by a multitude of invisible bonds by nature herself, long before any human art begins; they understand each other and have the power of continuing to make themselves understood more and more clearly; they belong together and are by nature one and an inseparable whole

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

You don't build walls; you build bridges between people.

English is the medium of communication for people all over India.

We need to build relationships, not walls.

I think we'll come to both bringing America together and learning how to interact with each other in a different way that maintains social distancing and that we care.

There is room for growth in all of us and across all of these platforms, to be able to make sure that we are hearing each other, that we are understanding exactly what's going on across the country.

A coach must be at one with his players.

The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.

An ancient father says that a dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand.

I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

That is, sir, there can only be communication, communion, when you and I are on the same level, and with the same intensity, at the same time.

I think laughter between people is a holy form of connection, of communion. It's the way you and I look at each other and without words, say, I get exactly what you're saying. And so, it's important to me.

Your soul craves truth, beauty, wonder, love. Your soul craves to dream, to imagine, and even simply to understand. Your soul craves to connect, to commune, to create.

We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.

You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate.

If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.