Language Quotations | Page 2

Abraham, a simple farmer, at a word from the Invisible God, marched, with family and stock, through the terrible desert to a distant land to live among a people whose language he could neither speak nor understand! Not bad, that!

The contribution of West African languages to Ebonics is absolutely infinitesimal. What it actually is is a very interesting hybrid of regional dialects of Great Britain that slaves in America were exposed to because they often worked alongside the indentured servants who spoke those dialects that we often learn about in school.

As languages go, English is pretty user friendly. If you look at a tiny language spoken somewhere that most of us have never heard of, chances are it's going to be so complicated that you have a hard time imagining how people can walk around speaking it without having a stroke.

Most languages spoken by a few thousand people are so complicated they make your head swim; a Siberian yak herder's language is much more complicated than a Manhattan bond trader's.

Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!

It's nonsense to say that it's not in the bill. The reality is that the bill they will have passed to the Senate will have this language in it.

I can't imagine my world without music. It's the universal language; what I make comes from my heart. What I listen to from others stirs it.

Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.

The internet is an amazing medium for languages,

A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.