Quotes and Sayings about Languages

He that traveleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

German literacy ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.

The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.

Language is the dress of thought.

If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.

Every language has its own music.

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

Language - a form of organized stutter.

What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea! Resilient, highly contagious. Once an idea has taken hold of the brain it's almost impossible to eradicate.

An idea is like a virus, resilient, highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying "I would stay and love you, but I have to go".

The world is like a book. Those who don't travel read only one page.

A kiss is something you need both hands for.

Preserve your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but not live.

Life is too short to learn German.

The Germans have six months of winter and six months of no summer.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

I fled out of the deep night - the deep night of the protected child-life , and tugged into the bright Day - the bright day of being-grownup

J.K. Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever.

Some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that.

There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.

To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live.

The best drivers don't dwell on the future or the past. The best drivers focus only on the present.

He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

My American strength coach said he liked me better before I could speak English.

If we buy ivory it makes all of us killers as well.

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.

What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

For knowledge, too, itself is power.
(Col. 'Knowledge is power.')

'You can go home now,' Tom told us.
'We'll meet next week. Then we can rob somebody and kill some people.'

Maybe not, maybe not. Cheer up, Becky, and let's go on trying.