Quotes about Language, page 3

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

Quote by Russell Hoban about language

Nothing exists except through language.

Quote by Hans-Georg Gadamer about language

The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.

Quote by Hans-Georg Gadamer about language

The German language is the organ among the languages.

Quote by Jean Paul about language

Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.

Quote by Jan Amos Komensky about language

A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.

Quote by Washington Irving about language

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.

Quote by Louise Bogan about language

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

Quote by William Hazlitt about language

We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.

Quote by Nelly Sachs about language

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

Quote by John Millington Synge about language

I salute my angel every day I salute my angel every day good morning Mr. angel I tell him, but no answer I always make two coffees, but one usually remains untouched I asked him about one or two things, generaly speaking I have intrest...

Quote by Liviu Nanu about language

There is no language as Latin as our language!

Quote by Dumitru Staniloae about language

I didn't want to do poetry, but language.

Quote by Angela Marinescu about language

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

Quote by Carol Shields about language

Harvest I will lose myself: and I carry in mouth the bitter language: an infinite of white bodies I have remembered on whose womb I hoped to sit my tone belonging to an ideal of perfection! RightWords Translation

Quote by Cezar Ivanescu about language

Latin was the language of Polish humanists.

Quote by Constantin Geambasu about language

You taught me language; and my profit don't Is, I know how to curse.

Quote by William Shakespeare about language

We are not the masters of language, but the language is our master.

Quote by Mihai Eminescu about language

Eminescu had risen the song, tales and popular language to the sparkling value of the Evening Star.

Quote by Eusebiu Camilar about language

Poets, it is in their nature, they do this through each act of artistic creation. They try "to say" as never "had been said" before; they are trying to rediscover the language and they behave, when they are "inspired" - as if the language had not...

Quote by Mircea Eliade about language