Quotes about Language
The Bible is God's Word given in man's language
- Max Lucado
It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so.
- Henry David Thoreau
I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.
- William Tyndale
The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.
- William Cameron Townsend
See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning.
- Brigham Young
If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.
- Mahatma Gandhi
I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.
- Virginia Woolf
I believe you can speak things into existence.
- Jay-Z
How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak music.
- Peter Kreeft
All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them.
- Virginia Woolf
Quiet talk is the language of love. It is the language of peace. It is the language of God.
- Gordon Hinckley