Quotes about Language
God is known by many names. And in the last analysis God's names were as many as human beings.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Star canto: star speaks light, and world to world Repeats the passage of the universe To God; the name of Christ--the one great word Well worth all languages in earth or heaven.
- Philip James Bailey
When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.
- Ashley Montagu
In good writing, words become one with things.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good writing is good conversation, only more so.
- Ernest Hemingway