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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I’ll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I’ll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can.

Everyone smiles in the same language.

A language is not just words. It’s a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It’s all embodied in a language.

‘Parent number one’ and ‘parent number two’: ‘birth parent’ instead of ‘mother’, banning the use of the phrase ‘breast milk’ and replacing it with ‘human milk’ so that people who are insecure about their gender will not be upset. This is nothing new. In the 1920s the Soviet so-called kulturträgers also invented the so-called ‘newspeak’, proposing that in this way they could create a new consciousness and change society’s values.

There is only one caste… the caste of humanity. There is only one religion… the religion of love. There is only one language… the language of the heart.

The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man’s soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That’s what musicians are.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

By only stepping in to name Hamas’ actions, which are condemnable, and refusing to acknowledge the rights of Palestinians, Biden reinforces the false idea that Palestinians instigated this cycle of violence. This is not neutral language. It takes a side, the side of occupation.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.

No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.

Give me a child and I’ll shape him into anything.

I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.

Since every school in India teaches English, why can’t it be our link language? Why do Tamils have to study English for communication with the world and Hindi for communications within India? Do we need a big door for the big dog and a small door for the small dog? I say, let the small dog use the big door too!

Music is the language spoken by angels.

Children must master the language of things before they master the language of words.

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction – in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.

To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Language is memory and metaphor.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

Self-centered anger generates evil, but wrath at social injustice becomes the driving force for reform. Strong language that censures and combats a great evil often awakens adverse reactions from society, but this must not intimidate those who believe they are right. A lion is a lion because he roars.

The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value.

My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation’s history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.

Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club – the community of speakers of that language.

If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture’s purpose was to disclose them.

Nobody knows everything-one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-and everybody makes mistakes.

The English language is full of words that are just waiting to be misspelled, and the world is full of sticklers, ready to pounce.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.

We will go to every part of Tamil Nadu and tell the people that Hindi is coming and that it is like a thunder strike on the heads of Tamil and Dravidian people…. If Hindi were to become the official language of India, Hindi-speaking people will govern us. We will be treated like third rate citizens

Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Every man prays in his own language.

Language is power, in ways more literal than most people think. When we speak, we exercise the power of language to transform reality.