Language Sharing Quotes

It's good to have someone who speaks your language in everyday life, especially for me, who does not speak English so well.

The United States, a land of immigrants from every corner of the world, has been strengthened and unified because its newcomers have historically chosen ultimately to forgo their native language for the English language. We have all benefited from the sharing of ideas, of cultures and beliefs, made possible by a common language. We have all enriched each other.

A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

Indeed, children thrown together in a community that doesn't have a language of its own will invent one in order to communicate with each other.

Everyone I know has a predilection for sharing words.

language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.

It taught the English to speak Spanish and it taught the Spanish to speak English. If we had more songs such as that, it would solve the immigration problem in a hurry. But there can't be another 'Feliz Navidad.'

Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages - the language is dead. Language takes two and their multiples.