David Crystal Quotes

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory.

I didn't really grow up with any traditions. I grew up in a pretty liberal household in Southern California. I think that's part of my interest in thinking about heritage. I don't have a second language or cultural heritage in that way.

We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of.

You couldn't have human society without language.

Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.

I'm proud of being Hispanic.

I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent.

I come from a multicultural family.

If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.

Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.

There are men of eighteen different languages; they are scattered here and there upon the [Hudson] river.

Immigrants bring growth, creativity, and opportunity to America. They are the cornerstone of much of our great nation's cultural heritage.

There is less and less of France abroad, and more that is foreign in France.

The unifying characteristics that make us Americans are becoming more and more diluted now because new immigrants want to set up ethnic enclaves to retain their culture and language.

Immigrants are changed by the greater society. Immigrants change the greater society.

A familiar question for Australians is how much we are a product of our circumstances, and how much we are what we have made ourselves to be. In truth, by the act of migration the country was made: by that voluntary act and by the emigrants' ambitions it was built.

I think that's what makes many Swedes jealous of immigrant groups. You have a culture, an identity, a history, something that brings you together. And what do we have? We have Midsummer's Eve and such silly things.

The American experience shows that the backlash to new ideas and cultures, now evident in many countries can be overcome.

Children are all foreigners.

America has long been the land of immigrants.

We are an immigrant nation.

It blows my mind that you get Shakespeare where the 'low' comedy characters have got Northern or Welsh accents.

New York is celebrated as a leader in our nation's quest for progress because ours is a city built by the labor of a thousand different shades and accents.

As one of the largest states in the country, Florida's vibrant diversity is a key part of our nation's story.

That's what this country is. It's made up of immigrants.