Native Language Quotes: top 29 famous quotes about Native Language

Native Language Quotes & Sayings

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Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed. — Casey Miller

When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.
~ Ogden Nash — Ogden Nash

March against size-zero models, risible pornography, lap-dancing clubs, and Botox. We don't need to — Caitlin Moran

Your religion of origin has such a bone-deep hold on you that, as with a native language, it's your only hope for true religious fluency. — George A. Lindbeck

It wasn't that Henry was less of himself in English. He was less of himself out loud. His native language was thought. — Maggie Stiefvater

We have to care what someone thinks of us. We are incapable of seeing ourselves [sometimes]. — Darnell Lamont Walker

I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy. — Gloria Estefan

There are certain people who seem doomed to buy certain houses. The house expects them. It waits for them. — Peter Ackroyd

The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard. — Patrick Kavanagh

Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial. — James Surowiecki

Nothing has changed since I began. My eye has permitted no change. I am going to keep things like this. — Ted Hughes

Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language. — Julia Glass

Sin is the native language in every ZIP code. — Matt Chandler

English is not merely a language anymore; it has become a way of life for millions of non-native English speakers around the world. — M.F. Moonzajer

Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego. — Richard M. Weaver

For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age. — Garry Kasparov

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. — Benjamin Whorf

Our life must have an aim, but we must also ensure that the direction we take is a good one. — Yehudi Menuhin

To be native to a place we must learn to speak its language. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

I can't make out what they're saying; it sounds like: hiss, blah, she hiss, squeak. But the aunt appears to speak the native language. — Emma Chase

I believe the United States should allow all foreigners in this country, provided they can speak our native language ... Apache. — Steve Martin

Love gives energy. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue native to the human heart, wherever educated. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language. — John Dryden

Tell me something in your native woodland language. — Marta Acosta

People know two languages: their native language and gibberish. — Maribel C. Pagan

To say goodbye is to die a little. — Raymond Chandler

To lose your own language was like forgetting your mother, and as sad, in a way. — Alexander McCall Smith

To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing. — Edith Piaf