Language Roots Quotes

Words, in their distant past, have the past of my reveries.

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.

Spanish is actually my first language, growing up, and I understand the culture. I understand the culture; I understand what the people want.

We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.

A nation without a language is a nation without a heart.

My mother tongue is Punjabi, but my first language is Urdu, which was the case with the people in undivided Punjab.

I am Afrikaans. It wasn't ever something that I thought about.

My feeling is that my body and all my things inside me - when I move, when I do everything - are Brazilian because my family is Brazilian, and my mother language is Brazilian Portuguese. But all the thinking in my life, all the treatment with people, I think I'm more from Spain. That's how I grew up.

Science is only a Latin word for knowledge

Every word was once a poem.

For the 99 percent of the time we've been on Earth, we were hunter and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the fine, small details of our world. Deep inside, we still have a longing to be reconnected with the nature that shaped our imagination, our language, our song and dance, our sense of the divine.

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only just the language of the Muslims, but it's also the language of the Hindus.

My homeland is the portuguese language.

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.

Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages.

Hindi is my mother tongue. Even though I do not get to use it as often, it's still a part of me.

English, no longer an English language, now grows from many roots.

Words derive their power from the original word.