Best Language Culture Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.”

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Author:Michael Gove

“Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.”

“Every people, in order to remain healthy and strong, has to have a grasp of its foundation story. Culture is a chrysalis - it is protective, it takes care of you. That's what cultures are for. You cannot rob a people of language, culture, mother, father, the value of their labor - all of that - without doing vast damage to those people.”

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Author:Randall Robinson

“A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.”

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Author:Gaston Bachelard

“Ukraine is the closest country to us. We have always said that Ukraine is our sister country and it is true. It is not just a Slavic people, it is the closest people to Russia: we have similar languages, culture, common history, religion etc.”

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Author:Vladimir Putin

“In a country like India, we don't want to put everyone in one big mixture. We have a different language, culture and cuisine for each region, even though we are united in the larger context. We are more like a fruit salad, where each ingredient has its own specialty, each fruit its distinct flavor, and together, the salad makes a tasty dish, without losing the individuality of each constituent.”

“The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!”

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Author:Maria Montessori

“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”

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Author:Toni Morrison

“While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similarities are undeniable, and the impact of abuse and oppression affects us all.”

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Author:Carre Otis

“In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.”

“Language is wine upon the lips.”

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Author:Virginia Woolf

“Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.”

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Author:Orson Scott Card

“Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.”

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Author:Rumi

“Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.”

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Book:Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual

Source: Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual

“We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.”

“Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.”

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Author:Benjamin Lee Whorf

“Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages”

Source: Dave Barry's Greatest Hits

“If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.”

“Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Prose and Verse: Complete in One Volume

“Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.”

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Book:Letters and Social Aims

Source: Letters and Social Aims

“I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.”

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Author:Samuel Johnson

“Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.”

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Book:Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings

Source: Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings

“Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.”

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Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.”

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Book:COMBAT IN THE EROGENOUS ZONE

Source: COMBAT IN THE EROGENOUS ZONE

“More than ever, I feel that the human race is one. There are differences of colour, language, culture and opportunities, but people's feelings and reactions are alike. People flee wars to escape death, they migrate to improve their fortunes, they build new lives in foreign lands, they adapt to extreme hardship….”

Source: Migrations: Humanity in Transition

“They say people can think for themselves? Do you honestly believe that the chap who can’t pass primary six knows the consequence of his choice when he answers a question viscerally, on language, culture and religion? But we knew the consequences. We would starve, we would have race riots. We would disintegrate.”

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Author:Lee Kuan Yew

“My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.”

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Author:Edward Tufte

“I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since.”

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Author:David Remnick

“Let us teach our people again to be proud that they are Filipinos. Let us teach them to realize anew that being a Filipino means having as rich and noble a heritage of language, culture, patriotism and heroic deeds as any nation on earth. Let us teach a steadfast faith in Divine Providence, a stable family institution, the unhampered enjoyment of civil liberties, the advantages of constitutional government, the potentials of a rich and spacious land.”

“I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.”

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Author:Katherine Dunn

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