Blick Bassy Quotes

Hindi is my mother tongue. Even though I do not get to use it as often, it's still a part of me.

I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.

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

Language, especially in this country is a daily plebiscite.

I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.

I think in my mother tongue. That's Hindi.

I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there.

I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important.

While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.

Our Constitution has affirmed that Gaelic is the national language. Yet there is scarcely one person in a thousand throughout Ireland who cannot speak English and scarcely one in ten who can speak Irish easily.

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

I think it's about the feeling more than a language. And I think that we and every culture in the world has to keep their own language just to bring something else, something different, and show a different vision of the world, actually. And that's why I'm trying to keep my language.

We used to speak Irish - Gaelic Irish - around the dinner table, but over the years, we lost that.

My mother tongue is Telugu. I was born and brought up in Tamil Nadu.

The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We can speak any language we want at the dinner table, but English is the language of public discourse, or the marketplace and of the voting booth.

I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.

I am making sure, as the governor of a territory, that our kids speak fluent English. But having said that, I will tell my wife I love her in Spanish, and I will pray in Spanish, and no one from Washington should come down here and tell us how to go about it.

I still keep my accent.

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.

Citizens of Canada of whom any child has received or is receiving primary or secondary school instruction in English or French in Canada, have the right to have all their children receive primary and secondary school instruction in the same language.

Languages are not owned by nations but by the people who use them and make them live.

My parents did not want us to lose our culture and our language. And that was a good thing.

Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs in society; the old language allows you to keep your sense of 'who you are.' It preserves your identity. With two languages, you have the best of both worlds.

Most of my family doesn't speak English. It's so important for the baby. He's going to know all his American roots, but he also needs to know about his Brazilian side.

I always speak Welsh to my family.