2,489 Quotes About Language

It is sweet, sometimes, to hear cliches after long days of trying to say something new.

Love is not one language, it is many. you don't have to be fluent in them all, just a commitment that you'll always be willing to learn.

From this I think we can conclude that the definitive English holorime has yet to be written. However, an old children's riddle does seem to come close. It is the one that poses the question "How do you prove in three steps that a sheet of paper is a lazy dog?"The answer: (1) a sheet of paper is an ink-lined plane; (2) an inclined plane is a slope up; (3) a slow pup is a lazy dog.

I have the strange feeling that man created language but now it creates us.

I realized that I would never have corrected somebody who said “you can feel the food.” That was how Owen would end up with students who said “savor,” while I would end up with students who said “papel iss blonk.

Afternoon light like pollen. This is my language, not the one I learned.

Die deutsche Sprache ist die Sprache der schweren Wörter

When a language dies, so much more than words are lost. Language is the dwelling place of ideas that do not exist anywhere else. It is a prism through which to see the world.

She speaks the most beautiful Urdu.