“When the Prince of Wales [later King George IV] and the Duke of York went to visit their brother Prince William [later William IV]at Plymouth, and all three being very loose in their manners, and coarse in their language, Prince William said to his ship's crew, "now I hope you see that I am not the greatest blackguard of my family.” SaidThreeLanguageBrotherKingsMy FamilyShipsMannersCrewRoyaltyDukesWalesCoarsePlymouth Author:Horace Walpole
“I'm getting less good at faking it. People in my family are noticing and asking what's wrong. My friends give me invitations to talk, to cry. I love them for their caring, but I want to run from it. I have lost their language, their facility with words that convey feelings. I am in new territory and feel like a foreigner in theirs.” PeopleWantGivingFeelsFeelingsRunningLostLanguageCryDepressionMy FriendsMy FamilyGive MeAskingIllnessCaringMental IllnessTerritoryInvitationsFacilityForeignersNoticingFaking ItNew Territory Author:Martha Manning
“When I was growing up, everyone around me was fond of fooling around with words. It was certainly common in my family, but I think it is typical of Bombay, and maybe of India, that there is a sense of play in the way people use language.” PeopleThinkingWayPlayUseLanguageCommonGrowing UpGrowingMy FamilyIndiaTypicalBombayFooling Around Author:Salman Rushdie
“I do have very deep, fond memories of my family in Mexico City, but I also remember feeling funny for not speaking English - I was basically an immigrant. But I picked up the language fast and soon I knew that I wanted to be a writer.” FeelingsWantedRememberLanguageMemoriesCitiesMy FamilyImmigrantsMexicoVery DeepMexico CityFond Memories Author:Louis C. K.
“It feels like people talk a lot, in their relationships and in therapy. But my family wasn't like that. My dad wasn't and I wasn't. Things were said, but via the language of action.” PeopleFeelsSaidActionLanguageDadMy FamilyMy DadTherapy Author:Leigh Newman
“Nobody in my family or in my neighborhood used the language that they used at the University of Chicago. I remember the first time I heard the word "value" repeated again and again by my professor. Value to me was the price of a frying pan.” RememberValuesLanguageFirst TimeMy FamilyNeighborhood Author:Cornel West
“My dad is a minister and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English. My mum and dad moved to London when they had my eldest sister. They started a life in London as immigrants, and they built up from there. They're no actors in my family, but there are definitely animated black people in my family.” PeopleLanguageBlackDadMy FamilyMovedMy DadBlack PeopleMumAnimatedEldestMum And Dad Author:John Boyega
“In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.” SpeakLanguageAbilityTelevisionMy FamilyEveningMiserableAbility To Speak Author:David Mamet
“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.” KindFeelingsMotivationalFoundFatherIndividualLanguageWomenDifferencesMistakeFamilyKindnessCommunicationAppreciateMy FamilyAppreciationAtmosphereNurtureAppreciatedFlexibleNurturingFlourishingAbout FamilyInspirational Family LoveGreat FamilyInspirational FamilyIndividual DifferencesFamily TiesLoving Your FamilySpiritual FamilyOpen CommunicationBeing Appreciated Author:Virginia Satir
“My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.” LanguageSoundVoiceHoursMy FamilyEarsRaisedLondonMessQueensAccentsLiverpoolCrispsButlers Author:John Oliver
“I remember learning German - so beautiful, so strange - at school in Australia on the other side of the earth. My family was nonplussed about me learning such an odd, ugly language and, though of course too sophisticated to say it, the language of the enemy. But I liked the sticklebrick nature of it, building long supple words by putting short ones together. Things could be brought into being that had no name in English - Weltanschauung, Schadenfreude, sippenhaft, Sonderweg, Scheissfreundlichkeit, Vergangenheitsbewältigung.” LongSchoolEarthTogetherBeautifulRememberCoursesNamesLanguageSidesEnemyBuildingStrangeMy FamilyUglyOddAustraliaSophisticatedSuppleSchadenfreude Book:Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall Source: Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall
“Although there are those who wish to ban my books because I have used language that is painful, I have chosen to use the language that was spoken during the period, for I refuse to whitewash history. The language was painful and life was painful for many African Americans, including my family. I remember the pain.” BookUsePainRememberUsedLanguageWishPeriodsMy FamilyIncludingPainfulRefuseChosenAfrican AmericanBansBanned Books Book:The Land Source: The Land