Culture And Language Quotes:

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

- Rita Mae Brown

source: Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.47, Bantam

topic: Inspiration, Learning, People, Inspirational Learning, Language Culture

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

- Wilhelm von Humboldt

source: "Language and Identity: An introduction". Book by John Edwards, 2009.

topic: Important, Culture, Language, Language Culture, Learning Language

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.

- Michael Gove

topic: Children, Empathy, Culture, Language Culture, Foreign Language

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

- Benjamin Lee Whorf

topic: Thinking, Shapes, Way, Language Acquisition, Language Culture

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

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

topic: Communication, Different, World, Spoken Language, Language And Communication

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

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

topic: Business, Communication, Past, Language And Communication, Language Arts

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

- Rumi

topic: Yoga, World, Language, Language Culture, Foreign Language

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.

- Edward Sapir

source: Edward Sapir (2014). “Language”, p.235, Cambridge University Press

topic: Art, Generations, Language, Inclusiveness, Linguistics

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Travel, Inspiration, Communication, International Language, Learning English

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

- Kofi Annan

source: Twitter post from Sep 03, 2016

topic: Race, Skins, Different, Inspirational Diversity, Language Culture

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Communication, Cities, Stones, Language And Communication, Language Culture

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

- Ingrid Bengis

source: Ingrid Bengis (1973). “COMBAT IN THE EROGENOUS ZONE”

topic: Acting, Action, Influence, Language Culture, Language Words

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

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Sorry, Communication, Language, Language And Communication, Language Culture

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

- Gaston Bachelard

source: "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

topic: Beauty, Communication, Writing, Language Culture, International Language

Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, religious or nonbelieving, man or woman, black, white, or brown, we are all the same. Physically, emotionally, and mentally, we are all equal. We all share basic needs for food, shelter, safety, and love. We all aspire to happiness and we all shun suffering. Each of us has hopes, worries, fears, and dreams. Each of us wants the best for our family and loved ones. We all experience pain when we suffer loss and joy when we achieve what we seek. On this fundamental level, religion, ethnicity, culture, and language make no difference.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Inspirational, Dream, Religious, Illiterate, Worry Fear

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.

- Katherine Dunn

source: FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Jun 02, 2013

topic: Magic, Age, Trouble, Language Culture, Culture And Language

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

- Toni Morrison

topic: Communication, May, Meaning Of Life, Language Culture, Culture And Language

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

topic: Running, Communication, Inspiration, Inspirational Learning, Language And Communication

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

- Maria Montessori

topic: Teaching, Men, Language, Spoken Language, Language Culture

Language is wine upon the lips.

- Virginia Woolf

topic: Wine, Lips, Language, Language Culture, Best Wine

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.18, St. Martin's Press

topic: Inspirational, Relationship, Inspiring, Niceness, Kind Thoughts

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

- Dave Barry

topic: Inspirational Life, Years, People, Spoken Language, Language Culture

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

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Parenting, Silence, Prized Possessions, Spoken Language, Language And Communication

It's really sad for me that in the United States the Latino community is losing its culture and language, especially among kids born here - a lot of them can't even speak our language.

- Romeo Santos

topic: Kids, Community, United States, Culture And Language

Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.

- Alan Lightman

topic: Children, Cutting, Emotional, Culture And Language

in order to confer their lost Nationality upon exiled Jews , the British with the help of the League of Nations began to rehabilitate the old Hebrew country, Palestine, with its long lost children. The Jews had maintained their race, religion, culture and language; and all they wanted was their natural territory to complete their Nationality. The reconstruction of the Hebrew Nation on Palestine is just an affirmation of the fact that Country, Race, Religion, Culture and Language must exist unequivocally together to form the Nation idea.

- M. S. Golwalkar

topic: Country, Children, Order, Lost Child, Culture And Language

Love is the single most powerful and important word and notion in culture and language. Until the power of love supersedes the love of power we have no chance of ever being successful.

- Bill Walton

source: Source: www.theruggedmale.com

topic: Powerful, Successful, Love Is, Culture And Language, Important Words

Ads and logos are our shared global culture and language, and people are insisting on the right to use that language, to reformulate it in the way that artists and writers always do with cultural material,.

- Naomi Klein

topic: Artist, People, Culture, Insisting, Culture And Language

Music crosses cultures and language barriers and it makes people feel good.

- John Seagall

source: Source: www.theaquarian.com

topic: People, Feel Good, Language Barriers, Culture And Language

That you've got to do anything that you feel is precious. I especially believe that about cultures and languages. You've got to be really conscious because time is running out.

- Gwenno

source: Source: thequietus.com

topic: Running, Believe, Culture, Time Is Running Out, Culture And Language

You often hear attacks on international adoption as robbing a child of his or her culture, and that's both true and false. It's true that an internationally adopted child loses the rich background of history and religion and culture and language that the child was born into, but the cruel fact is that most children don't have access to the local, beautiful culture within an orphanage.

- Melissa Fay Greene

source: Source: www.cnn.com

topic: Beautiful, Children, Adoption, Culture And Language, Adopted Children

I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.

- N. Scott Momaday

topic: World, Different, Culture, Culture And Language, Different Cultures

I'm certainly curious about people. As a kid, I moved around a lot. I was raised in a lot of different places, and thanks to working in the movies, I've gotten to keep traveling. I've always been interested in other cultures and languages.

- Viggo Mortensen

topic: Kids, Other Cultures, People, Culture And Language