Quotes About Alphabet

The Beatles wanted their new enterprise to have a less corporate name than Beatles and Company. "And everyone, sort of, hesitated about a name," Brown recalled. "Then Paul, in his efficient way goes, 'Let's go through the alphabet.' And he said, 'A is for Apple.' And he didn't have to go any farther."9

I is the first letter of the alphabet, the first word of the language, the first thought of the mind, the first object of affection.

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

Remember: "I" before "E," except in Budweiser.

A is ???? is alpha: the inverted head of an ox. ? is ???? is beta: based on the floor plan of a house. ? is ? ???? is omega, the mega O: a great whale's mouth opening to swallow all the letters before it.

'Alphabet' by the late Danish poet Inger Christensen. It's a book-length abecedarian poem. It's an activist text but also a portal to wonder.

A syllabary is a system in which each syllable of the language is represented by its own sign.

The Phoenician script was in effect a syllabary.

The Semitic signs were given names that served as mnemonics for the respective sounds: alf, bet, and so on.

This is why, when the Greeks adapted this system for their own use, they called it the 'alphabet'.

ALPHA  (A'LPHA)   n.s.The first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to our A; therefore used to signify the first. I am alpha and omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.BibleRevelat.

I consider the English alphabet only as it is English;

The AlphabetOf flowers.

But stamped on her face was also regret that she had been wrong in her assessment. In those weeks she felt humiliated at having always ascribed a power to things that in the current hierarchies were insignificant: the alphabet, writing, books. Only then—I think today—did she, who seemed so disillusioned, so adult, come to the end of her childhood.

my mother, before she became my mother, was followed by the man with whom she would make love, who would cover her with his name, who would annihilate her with his alphabet.

I'm an amazing cook. And I'm a gentleman but can belch the entire alphabet. Classy.

La matematica è l'alfabeto nel quale Dio ha scritto l'universo.

Mathematics is the alphabet with which God has written the universe.

saw something once from the Jewish Theological Seminary that said, "A human life is like a single letter of the alphabet. It can be meaningless. Or it can be a part of a great meaning.

I do want to do the entire alphabet. There's in [Walker's Alphabet] a poem called "A Life" in that grouping. I was going to change that title to "A."

In the English language, it all comes down to this: Twenty-six letters, when combined correctly, can create magic. Twenty -six letters form the foundation of a free, informed society.

Taking the alphabet first and learning one letter a year for twenty-six years he will be able to read and write as early in life as he ought to. If we were more careful not to teach our children to read in their childhood we should not be so anxious about the effects of pernicious literature upon their adolescent morals.

I learned that there are books and there are readers; given even the worst of circumstances, they get together. In the privacy of their own homes or on park benches or on public buses, in the corner of the reference room, at the end of an aisle of fiction, in the middle of the alphabet, they club up and conspire.

Because we were a poor area, the school had a small budget and was unable to teach the second half of the alphabet.