Language Culture Quotes
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Language Culture Quotes & Sayings
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If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting.
— Sandra Cisneros
Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German.
— Martin Freeman
Language by its very nature is naive,we make it complex and naughty. We make it look and sound like what it is not.
— Nahiyan Bin Asadullah
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
The gospel is capable and designed to strike home in every culture, in every age, and in every language.
— Scot McKnight
Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.
— Gates McFadden
Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.
— Raymond Williams
Language is the key to the heart of people.
— Ahmed Deedat
There is room for everyone; there is room for every culture, race, language and point of view.
— Desmond Tutu
Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.
— Daniel Tammet
A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.
— Robert Payne
The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.
— Terence McKenna
I feel like a failure." The expression comes so naturally that we forget it is a figure of speech: the language of business applied to the soul.
— Scott A. Sandage
If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.
— Khaled Hosseini
I took Japanese in high school. I'm Chinese, though, and I just fell in love with the language and the culture.
— Matthew Moy
The cool thing about doing a voice-over into a different language is that you get to bring the character of your own culture into it.
— Bridgit Mendler
Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Language, any language, has a dual character: it is both a means of communication and a carrier of culture
— Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
When a language dies, a possible world dies with it.
— George Steiner
What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.
— Terry Tempest Williams
The totality of utterances that can be made in a speech community is the language of that speech community.
— Leonard Bloomfield
Sin is the native language in every ZIP code.
— Matt Chandler
Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
— Terence McKenna
Contentment can only be found in not envying others or comparing yourself to them but in being satisfied with what you have.
— Larry Herzberg
Language overlaps with culture but is not subsumed by it
— John McWhorter
factory's problems arose from the introduction of an industrial process in a country with a language and culture stuck in the Middle Ages. The
— Antonio Garrido
Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence.
— Stewart Brand
Language itself is a cultural convention, and since the Bible and other ancient documents use language to communicate, they are bound to a culture.
— John H. Walton
Wherever I go throughout the world - no matter the language, no matter the culture - I thrill to hear the testimonies of the Saints.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
A translator must, of course, be an interpreter of cultures.
— Philip Zaleski
What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.
— Irene Nemirovsky
Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Lewis is like a gateway, making the riches of Deep Church more accessible.
— Alister E. McGrath
The French in particular confuse unadorned direct language with a lack of culture or intellectual elegance.
— A.A. Gill
The United States is enriched by many cultures, and united by a single common language.
— S.I. Hayakawa
If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law?
— Paul Craig Roberts
Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.
— Herb Ritts
Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
The sacrifices of time and money that Chinese friends will make for one another often go far beyond what is expected or accepted in Western society.
— Larry Herzberg
An entire mythology is stored within our language.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
For music alone can abolish differencesof language or culture between two people and invoke something indestructible within them. — Irene Nemirovsky
Everything and anything about a culture can be inferred from the shape of its language - and
— Robert A. Heinlein
Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture.
— Ravi Zacharias
I turned to photography because I thought it was the dominant language of our culture.
— Sarah Charlesworth
To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.
— Frantz Fanon
My culture and my language have the right to exist, and no one has the authority to dismiss that.
— James Kelman
Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity.
— Robert Lane Greene
Yesterday's abomination is today's rule.
— Robert Lane Greene
Whoever lives in whichever state should learn the culture of thestate and its language.
— Raj Thackeray
Each culture might lend its own dialect, but above all that is the language of music itself, and it doesn't care about politics or boundaries.
— Geoff Zanelli
At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs.
— Robyn Davidson
To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.
— Spyridon Marinatos
Annoyance has made me bilingual.
— Gayle Forman
A landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture.
— Charlie Waite
