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I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity. — John Ciardi

I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them. — Scott Weiland

Every day I see Jesus Christ in all his distressing disguises. — Mother Teresa

I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine 'photojournalism' is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars. — Mary Ellen Mark

Unless I speak, you won't see me. — Marty Rubin

Life's a game and men the gamblers. They'll stake their whole pile on the one chance in a thousand. Take away that one chance, and - they won't play. — Jack London

Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced. — Terry Eagleton

Events like Hurricane Katrina and the Minnesota bridge collapse suggest a national infrastructure that has suffered from lack of tending. — Nina Easton

Tiago decided he enjoyed armchair warfare. It was so comfortable, and there were pastries. — Thea Harrison

Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging. — Jhumpa Lahiri

One's identity derives not from one's nation or blood but from the language one uses. — Minae Mizumura

If I am your leader, you have to listen to me & if you don't want to listen to me, then drop me as your leader — Nelson Mandela

On the way home Mary Lou said, "Some things are so sad you can't say them." But I pretended not to hear. — Joyce Carol Oates

I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point. — Sean Penn

Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup. — Mary Pipher

I never said to myself, I am longing; that feeling lived at a level below language. — Lauren Slater

Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity. — Robert Lane Greene

A service is well rendered when the receiver can remember it. — Publilius Syrus

Du hast so viele Leben, wie du Sprachen sprichst. (You have as many lives as the number of languages you speak.) — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I feel as if I am the eye of my own storm, still, like the mermaid, at the center of my own chaos. — Raffaella Barker

An interesting thing about New York City is that the subways run through the sewers. — Garrison Keillor

A child sees possibilities; an adult sees through the windows of harsh past realities. — Debasish Mridha