Language Quotes - Page 15

• Teach your children or your grandchildren Chinese. It is going to be the most important language of their lifetimes.

  Jim Rogers

  Children, Business, Chinese

  Jim Rogers (2014). “A Bull in China: Investing Profitably in the World's Greatest Market”, p.12, John Wiley & Sons

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• If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing the evolution of musical language, whose progressive development comes about through transgressions of a given era's perceptual habits."

  Jean-Jacques Nattiez

  Music, Writing, Flirting

  Jean-Jacques Nattiez (1990). “Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music”, p.99, Princeton University Press

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• SMILE! In every language, in every culture - it is the light in your window that tells people there's a caring, sharing individual inside and it's the universal code for "I'm O. K. - You're O. K., too!"

  Denis Waitley

  Smile, Caring, Light

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• Contrary to conventional wisdom, dance is not a universal 'language' but many languages and dialects. There are close to 6000 verbal languages, and probably that many dance languages.

  Judith Lynne Hanna

  Dance, Dialect, Conventional Wisdom

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• Your spirit is to be connected with your attention. Your spirit which is in your heart has to come in your attention. So who does the connection is this power which we call in Sanskrit language as Kundalini.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.

  Saint Augustine

  Education, Teacher, Use

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• To every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and soothing language.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Perseverance, Adversity, Obstacles

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.110, Modern Library

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• Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Communication, Self, Expression

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• For me, myth is the 'common' language of us all.

  Janet Morris

  Communication, Common, Myth

  Interview with Michael A. Ventrella, michaelaventrella.com. May 15, 2012.

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• The seven of us on board [the Space Shuttle] represented five different religions. But we were all agreed - it just doesn't make sense how people on earth treat each other. It doesn't make any difference what language we speak. It doesn't make any difference what country we come from. It certainly doesn't make any difference what the color of our skin is. We are all children of God traveling on spaceship earth together.

  Jake Garn

  Country, Children, Color

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• 'Mixtape' is a very appropriate word to include in the title of Goran Hugo Olsson's film because it includes a rich mixture of cultural voices. They speak across different dividing lines such as those of haves and have-nots, youth and maturity, black and white, national and global, and the past and the present.

  Aberjhani

  Black And White, Maturity, Past

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• We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Friendship, True Friend, Father

  "Meditations of a Parish Priest" by Philibert Joseph Roux, translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., Part 9, LIV, 1886.

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• What enriches language is its being handled and exploited by beautiful minds-not so much by making innovations as by expanding it through more vigorous and varied applications, by extending it and deploying it. It is not words that they contribute: what they do is enrich their words, deepen their meanings and tie down their usage; they teach it unaccustomed rhythms, prudently though and with ingenuity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Beautiful, Book, Ties

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• We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough. One should read all styles thoroughly.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Reading, People

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• The present gives you the opportunity to dive deep into the water of life, or to fly high into the sky of life. But on both the sides there are dangers - 'past' and ´future´ are the most dangerous words in human language.

  Rajneesh

  Past, Opportunity, Water Of Life

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• Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

  George Eliot

  Positive Thinking, Thinking, Might

  Middlemarch bk. 2, ch. 14 (1871 - 1872)

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• The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. What is there that can transcend deep difference and stubborn divisions? The arts. They have a wonderful universality. Art has the potential to unify. It can speak in many languages without a translator. The arts do not discriminate. The arts lift us up.

  Barbara Jordan

  Art, Carpe Diem, Differences

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• There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.

  John Dewey

  Attitude, Communication, Ties

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• We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of language this nation gets a little stronger.

  Richard Riley

  Teacher, Appreciation, Art

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• No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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• I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Country, Men, Blood

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, Kathleen Coburn, Bart Keith Winer, Carl Woodring (1990). “Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Table Talk (2 v.)”, Bollingen Foundation

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• These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live.

  Henry Ford

  Men, Immigration, Way To Live

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• Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we have, will not in my Opinion be able to preserve our Language, and even our Government will become precarious.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Government, Immigration, Able

  Benjamin Franklin (1931). “Educational views of Benjamin Franklin”, AMS Press

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• The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned; for, by so doing, they retain the language, habits, and principles (good or bad) which they bring with them. Whereas by an intermixture with our people, they, or their descendants, get assimilated to our customs, measures, and laws: in a word, soon become one people.

  George Washington

  Mean, Law, People

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• What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.

  Niels Bohr

  Science, Ideas, Tasks

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