English Quotes

In English, there is one word for sister. In Chinese, there are two separate words, for elder and younger sister. This is actually a translation problem because if you see the word sister, you don't know how to translate it to Chinese because you don't know if it's an elder sister or younger.

I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.

My parents grew up in poor families where little English was spoken, they both went to college and became teachers. They believed that anything was possible with hard work, and they particularly stressed the importance of education. They instilled that same belief in my sister and me.

I'm bilingual. I speak English and Spanish.

Hindi has never been a trouble. In fact, Hindi is the only language I can speak and write apart from Malayalam and English.

Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

The people demanded gunpowder for every thing. If we had possessed any quantity of that article, we should have got on well, for here it is of great value. On our return, near this spot we found a good-sized fowl was sold for a single charge of gunpowder. Next to that, English calico was in great demand.

English and French are the official languages of Canada and have equality of status and equal rights and privileges as to their use in all institutions of the Parliament and government of Canada.

There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.

If they [the English] want a war, they may start it. We are not afraid of it.

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

When in doubt about who's to blame. Blame the English.

I studied English at the College of Wooster in Ohio, and I did an M.F.A. in Poetry at Columbia.

'Othello' was my first Shakespearean discovery. I was obsessed with drama at school, and I studied the play for my English GCSE. Desdemona is the part that everyone wants, but Iago's wife Emilia is the one I've always been drawn to.

Someone's just told me the English are still trying to take over the United States - is that true?

God is an Englishman

We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder.

I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family - poor, in fact.

Those who do not know history are probably also not doing well in English or math. P.J. O'Rourke

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

In this war I am completely English.

That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.

I want to learn English.

Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.