Language Importance Quotes

I don't speak Spanish, and I get so much crap for it. Oddly enough, it was the first language I learned, but somehow I lost it throughout the years. I can understand pieces of it, but I don't speak it. I need to speak it. I want to teach my kids Spanish.

Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

I believe words mean something. I really do.

Words matter. Especially ones with four letters.

If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.

It's an important social duty to spread the word of English to people whose livelihoods depend on knowing the language.

I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.

Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

Language is very important. If you are condoning acts of terror... you are giving credibility to a view that is perverse and is wrong.

If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.

If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have

Words matter, words have import.

It is an absolute privilege to be able to speak another language and have it be something you grew up with. I think it's a very important thing and I think that everywhere else in the world people speak more than one language.

I think it's important if you're American to have a second language, and Spanish is the language to have.

Until the age of five, my parents spoke to me in Chinese or a combination of Chinese and English, but they didn't force me to speak Mandarin. In retrospect, this was sad, because they believed that my chance of doing well in America hinged on my fluency in English. Later, as an adult, I wanted to learn Chinese.

Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles.

Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.

...language is not the frosting, it's the cake.

I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor.

Language is powerful. Words matter.

If we had no language we'd have nothing.