Quotes About Language

There is no reason why we shouldn't be able to split an infinitive, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because they weren't available to the Romans.

I read nasheeds (Islamic songs) in English, in Arabic. I read nasheeds even in Bangla language. Now I don't just travel to meet people from my own country but people from the entire ummah.

Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages.

Sound waves do not die out. They travel forever and forever. All our sentences are immortal. Our useless bleatings circle the universe for all eternity.

They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.

It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English.

I haven't been abroad in so long that I almost speak English without an accent now.

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and ridiculous.

You have not lived until you have fled a city in a country where you do not speak the language in the middle of the night.

My father never lived to see his dream come true of an all-Yiddish-speaking Canada.

I would love to speak a foreign language but I can't. So I grew hair under my arms instead.

I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.

What did the earth teach the trees? How to speak to the sky.

I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean.

Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.

The grapevine should be named after a more bitter fruit. It should be called the grapefruit tree.

What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.

Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.

Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .

Arbores loqui latine. The trees speak Latin.