Quotes About Language

Words tend to bounce off nature as they try to deliver nature's language into the hands of another language foreign to it.

God writes love and speaks poetry.

There are angels in nature walking amongst the trees and whispering the secret language of sacred things.

To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms she speaks A various language.

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'

These girls probably use double negatives and watch "A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila" with their babies instead of reading Eric Carle.

Hath any wounded thee with injuries? Meet them with patience. Hasty words rankle the wound; soft language dresses it.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives .

In the silence of the Cross, the uproar of weapons ceases and the language of reconciliation, forgiveness, dialogue and peace is spoken.

The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again

Quiet talk is the language of love. It is the language of peace. It is the language of God.

I look forward to my first visit to Israel. Music is a universal language that is meant to unify audiences in peace and love, and that is the spirit of our show.

It never occurred to me that anyone would name a nuclear missile "Peacekeeper". It never occurred to me that thousands of people would be killed in the name of "peace-keeping".

Peace is the language we must speak.

On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.

There are three things without which there is no country--common language, common judicature, and co-tillage land--for without these a country cannot support itself in peace and social union.

Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.

Silent is an anagram of listen.

I don't use the word 'pet.' I think it's speciest language. I prefer 'companion animal.' We would no longer allow... pet shops... Eventually companion animals would be phased out.

Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.

We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.