Language Quotes - Page 34

• Our parents taught us to love God, love our family and love our country. Their own grandparents were immigrants. Their first language may not have been English, but the hopes and dreams they had for their children were purely American.

  Martin O'Malley

  Dream, Country, Children

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• Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Communication, Law

  Beecher, Henry Ward (1882). “Plymouth Pulpit: Semi-monthly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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• If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people.

  John Jay Chapman

  People, Literature, World

  John Jay Chapman (1970). “The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Politics”

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• What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking, and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science. If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, we are engaged in science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections are not accessible to the conscious mind but are recognized intuitively as meaninful, then we are engaged in art. Common to both is the loving devotion to that which transcends personal concerns and volition.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Mind, Wish

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• Being raised a Jew in southern California in the 1950s and 1960s, my religious training emphasized learning the Hebrew language and Jewish festivals, history, and culture. We also remembered the Holocaust and supported the newly formed Jewish state of Israel.

  Rick Strassman

  Religious, Israel, California

  Rick Strassman, M.D. (2000). “DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences”, p.295, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• And this I have learned grown-ups do not know the language of shadows.

  Opal Whiteley

  Shadow, I Have Learned, Knows

  Opal Whiteley (2010). “Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart”, p.127, Crown

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• The poet is a master of language, the schizophrenic is a slave to it.

  Hilde Bruch

  Slave, Poet, Masters

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• The act of vagabonding is not an isolated trend so much as it is a spectral connection between people long separated by place and time, but somehow speaking the same language.

  Rolf Potts

  Long, People, Trends

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.5, Ballantine Books

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• Scrape the surface of language, and you will behold interstellar space and the skin that encloses it.

  Velimir Khlebnikov

  Space, Skins, Surface

  Velimir Khlebnikov, Charlotte Douglas (1990). “The King of Time: Selected Writings of the Russian Futurian”, p.205, Harvard University Press

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• The world was a cruder, more vulgar place than the one I had known. This was the language required to live in it, I supposed.

  Alice McDermott

  World, Vulgar, Known

  Alice McDermott (2013). “Someone”, p.153, A&C Black

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• The church has long used the concept of sacraments--outward signs of inward grace--to name the spaces where God meets us in an especially present way. For many Christians, however, that language seems abstract, even (sadly) foreign. Dean Nelson lovingly explores those spaces of encountering God; his luminous book has helped me see anew the sacred in the ordinary. I am grateful.

  Lauren F. Winner

  Christian, Book, Grateful

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• When Mr. Miyamoto says easy, he doesnt mean simple. He means easily -- this is the difficulty of the language here. Its accessible, and you know how to do things, if not necessarily what to do. You may have a series of puzzles to figure out, and it may be difficult to decipher the meaning, but its not difficult to accomplish what you need to do.

  Eiji Aonuma

  Mean, Simple, Needs

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• Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing an act of ethnocentric violence by uprooting the text from the language and culture that gave it life. Translating into current, standard English at once conceals that violence and homogenizes foreign cultures.

  Lawrence Venuti

  Interesting, Receiving, Culture

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• In my commencement address I gave the language and sources of the prophetic utterance made by the Prophet Joseph that the Constitution of the United States would hang by a single thread, but be saved by the elders of Israel. I hope you will read those sources so you will be well-informed as to this prophecy and be prepared to do your part in its fulfillment.

  Ernest L. Wilkinson

  Israel, United States, Utterance

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• We acquire both the language and religious concepts from our immediate culture – at the same time. A child cannot discriminate between useful survival information and the emotional and psychological manipulations of religion. Once infected, these ideas are deeply embedded and almost impossible to change.

  Darrel Ray

  Religious, Children, Emotional

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• Language is the soul’s ozone layer and we thin it at our peril.

  Sven Birkerts

  Ozone, Soul, Layers

  Sven Birkerts (2006). “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age”, p.153, Macmillan

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• Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm, syntax, image and metaphor. Reading it-the best of it-can create another, very different kind of perpetual present, an awareness that can be as ongoing in the soul as the stop-time of trauma.

  Sven Birkerts

  Spring, Communication, Reading

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• Language development, for instance, has a critical period that begins in infancy and ends between eight years and puberty. After this critical period closes, a person’s ability to learn a second language without an accent is limited. In fact, second languages learned after the critical period are not processed in the same part of the brain as is the native tongue.

  Norman Doidge

  Eight, Years, Brain

  Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.52, Penguin

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• Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the final blowup of what was once a remarkable, if minor, talent… this is a penny dreadful tricked up in fancy language and given a specious depth by the expert manipulation of a series of eccentric technical tricks. The characters have no magnitude and no meaning because they have no more reality than a mince-pie nightmare.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Book, Character, Reality

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• The New Oxford Dictionary has declared Sarah Palin's word 'refudiate' to be the 2010 Word of the Year. Palin was honored and said she would do her best to 'dismangle' the English language.

  Conan O'Brien

  Years, Oxford, Said

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• People… they don’t write anymore – they blog. Instead of talking, they text, no punctuation, no grammar: LOL this and LMFAO that. You know, it just seems to me it’s just a bunch of stupid people pseudo-communicating with a bunch of other stupid people in a proto-language that resembles more what cavemen used to speak than the King’s English.

  David Duchovny

  Kings, Stupid, Writing

  "Fictional character: Hank Moody". Californication (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian.

  Nicholas Lea

  Thinking, Speak

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four letter word.

  Tom Cruise

  Would Be, Four, Letters

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• Real emotion transcends language. You dont have to understand their words 
         to feel their pain.

  Julia Roberts

  Pain, Real, Emotion

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• Culture is worth a little risk.

  Norman Mailer

  Book, Risk, Culture

  "The Poetic License to Kill" by Lance Morrow, in TIME magazine, content.time.com. February 1, 1982.

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