Common Tongue Quotes

Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.

The whole earth was of one language and one speech.

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

The language of sin was universal, the original Esperanto.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

We are all American. If we believe that we are Americans, if we believe that what binds us together is what we have in common, then it must include the common language, and that common tongue is English.

Among the various vernaculars that are spoken in different parts of India, there is one that stands out strongly from the rest, as that which is most widely known. It is Hindi. A man who knows Hindi can travel over India and find everywhere Hindi-speaking people.

There was a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boy had used throughout the time that he was trying to improve things at the shop. It was the language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired.

Drizzt had always suspected it, but now it was confirmed, that "welcome" was his favortie word in the Common Tongue, and a word, he understood with no equivalent in the language of the drow.

Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.

It is certain that the truth of the Christian faith becomes more evident the more the faith itself is known. Therefore, the doctrine should not only be in Latin but also in the common tongue, and as the faith of the Church is contained in the Scriptures, the more these are known in the true sense, the better.

If the academic community gets its way, we will soon all be speaking with a single voice.

Invent a new language anyone can understand.

All cartoonists are linked together in the world - it's our language, one we can communicate in.