833 Quotes About Speech

Positive vocabulary is like good soil. By speaking and being positive we can enrich the lives of others.

Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more than a thousand gibberish.

The language in which we are speaking is his before it is mine. How different are the words HOME, CHRIST, ALE, MASTER, on his lips and on mine! I cannot speak or write these words without unrest of spirit. His language, so familiar and so foreign, will always be for me an acquired speech. I have not made or accepted its words. My voice holds them at bay. My soul frets in the shadow of his language.

The speech of God’s beautiful woman is a fountain of life to those around her.

Criticize me if you can, but that won't stop me from saying what i like, my mouth is mine, and not yours.

Words cannot only be made... But made to have a meaning, free the tongue and continue your speech.

I know of no evil that ever existed, nor can imagine any evil to exist, worse than the tearing of seventy or eighty thousand persons every year from their own land.

It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect.

cadence, n.I have never lived anywhere but New York or New England, but there are times when I'm talking to you and I hit a Southern vowel, or a word gets caught in a Suthern truncation, and I know it's because I'm swimming in your cadences, that you penetrate my very language.