N. Scott Momaday Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Survival, Doe, Chance

• Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities of words indefinitely. This is advantageous on the one hand but dangerous on the other. The result is that we have developed a kind of false security where language is concerned, and our sensitivity to language has deteriorated. And we have become in proportion insensitive to silence.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Attitude, Writing, Hands

• I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Different, Culture, World

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