Mads Mikkelsen Quotes

My homeland is the portuguese language.

One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do. It doesn't matter if you're close - it still sounds terrible to their ears.

There is a pride in speaking this language.

In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke.

I am typically French.

A nation without a language is a nation without a heart.

Language is at the root of Quebec nationalism.

Every nation has its own language as well as its own temperament.

France is the most civilized country there is.

I am a native Frenchwoman and proud of it.

You may hear from my fabulous accent that I'm French!

I am French. I was born here, I live here and France is my cultural identity.

Being a France is great from a heritage standpoint.

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.

A national language is a band of national union.

Is calling English our national language racist? Are we at that point?

Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.

If you love language, it will love you back.

To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical.

Je suis autant Chinois que Fran c° ais. I am as much Chinese as French.

No nation can survive without passing its heritage, language and, yes, faith to the next generation. A country must be built on something substantial and if the cultural elitists think it can be built on 'diversity,' that is a foundation of shifting sand.

Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

By Anglicising ourselves we have thrown away with a light heart the best claim we have upon the world's recognition of us as a seperate nationality...the notes of nationality, our language and customs.

I'd like to learn French well enough to write in that language.