Edward R. Murrow Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Communication, Technology, Language

  On receiving the "Family of Man" Award, 1964.

• People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Funny, Art, Communication

• Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Life, Learning, Firsts

• A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Men, Wish, Body

• Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his dreams to life.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Life, Dream, Memories

• Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Battle, Language, English Language

  Broadcast, 30 Nov. 1954

• Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Men, Fire, Discovery

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