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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
The gospel is capable and designed to strike home in every culture, in every age, and in every language.
— Scot McKnight
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
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
There is thin line between fun and disrespect to a language. Poking once or twice is fun but excess is disrespect.
— Pankaj Gupta
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
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 overlaps with culture but is not subsumed by it
— John McWhorter
The United States is enriched by many cultures, and united by a single common language.
— S.I. Hayakawa
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
Language, any language, has a dual character: it is both a means of communication and a carrier of culture
— Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
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
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
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
— Angela Carter
To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.
— Spyridon Marinatos
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
To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.
— Frantz Fanon
An entire mythology is stored within our language.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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
Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Yesterday's abomination is today's rule.
— Robert Lane Greene