Top 50 Bilingual Quotes

#1. Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.'

Dave Chappelle

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#2. You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I never understood that. My parents always had me speak Spanish first knowing I was going to speak English in school.

Emily Rios

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#3. I've studied Chinese in college, but basically, I'm not bilingual.

David Henry Hwang

Bilingual Quotes #59939
#4. My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.

Ernest Istook

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#5. And although like most black males raised in Los Angeles, I'm bilingual only to the extent that I can sexually harass women of all ethnicities in their native languages, I understood the gist of the message.

Paul Beatty

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#6. Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

John Millington Synge

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#7. The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out looking like a brand-new glove again. I'm completely in awe of this skill, since I happen to be both bilingual and a writer, but nevertheless a lousy translator.

Alma Guillermoprieto

Bilingual Quotes #218394
#8. You'd never be able to convince someone to give you money to do a bilingual story where you're not translating half of it - you'd drive people crazy. But in comics, you can do whatever your heart desires.

Brian K. Vaughan

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#9. All conservatives are bilingual we have to be. We speak both liberal and conservative. But liberals are monolingual - they don't have to be anything else. They speak liberal, and are completely ignorant of the conservative tongue.

John Podhoretz

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#10. All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.

Helen Vendler

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#11. History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; it is a curse for a society to be bilingual.

Richard Lamm

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#12. He speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual too.

Don King

Bilingual Quotes #318953
#13. Can you imagine being bilingual? Or even knowing anybody that was? I'm not even unilingual. Actually, I shouldn't say that. I don't give myself enough credit. I know enough English to, you know, get by. I can order in restaurants and stuff.

Brian Regan

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#14. Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been.

Stephen Harper

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#15. It seems obvious now: the child who spends school days in a fog of semi-comprehension has no way to know her problem is not that she is slow-witted.

Sonia Sotomayor

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#16. When I'm writing poetry, 99.9% of my writing begins in English. I spent most of my life in English, although I am bilingual.

Pat Mora

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#17. An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness.

Sonia Sotomayor

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#18. I came here when I was almost 22. I'm perfectly bilingual, but I'm never going to sound like Sandra Bullock.

Roselyn Sanchez

Bilingual Quotes #489043
#19. My wife and I have spent most of our lives in France, and we are both pretty well bilingual, my wife more purely than I, since as a little girl she went to school in French Switzerland.

Patrick O'Brian

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#20. Her English was sweet, an effort for her, anachronistic and unpractised.

Ruth Ahmed

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#21. Annoyance has made me bilingual.

Gayle Forman

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#22. If you speak three languages you're trilingual. If you speak two languages you're bilingual. If you speak the language of the opposite sex, you can communicate.

Julieanne O'Connor

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#23. American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity.

Gordie Howe

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#24. The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.

Bill Vaughan

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#25. All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

Gordie Howe

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#26. Bilingual-education advocates say it's important to teach a child in his or her family's language. I say you can't use family language in the classroom - the very nature of the classroom requires that you use language publicly.

Richard Rodriguez

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#27. We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto.

Newt Gingrich

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#28. I was brought up bilingual, but there came a point where my mom went back to work and I got a white babysitter, so sadly I lost it. Now I can understand Spanish and put words together, but I don't speak it fluently. I'm ashamed of that.

Michael Trevino

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#29. A bilingual marriage, by the way, is a great way to stay together for longer than you normally would because you can't understand each other very well.

Poe Ballantine

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#30. I was born in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1948 but grew up in a black neighborhood. During elementary and middle school, I commuted to a bilingual school in Chinatown. So I did not confront white American culture until high school.

Laurence Yep

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#31. [Doing a bilingual album] helped artistically because whenever I got bored of writing in English, I would write in Spanish. It's always cool when you have the choice.

Enrique Iglesias

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#32. I don't know or understand any other language except the language of kindness.

Debasish Mridha

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#33. I failed world geography, civics, Spanish and English. And when you fail Spanish and English, they do not consider you bilingual. They may call you bi-ignorant because you can't speak any language.

Tim Scott

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#34. Most educated Indians are bilingual. Amongst the urban elite though, there is a disdain for regional languages. That's unfortunate.

Amish Tripathi

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#35. My parents are both Belgian-born, and so am I, actually. I'm bilingual, so I had experience with French.

Celine Buckens

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#36. German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties; I see you more clearly, the movements of your body, your hands, so quick, so resolute, it's almost like a meeting.

Franz Kafka

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#37. By the time they got home, they were both thoroughly bilingual in cursing. *

Orson Scott Card

Bilingual Quotes #1400111
#38. My goal was to reach this literary crowd, but I didn't want to alienate my core fan base. I grew up speaking that language, this isn't put on. I can go back and forth; it's almost like being bilingual. But I'm not college educated; I don't know rules of grammar.

Rude Jude

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#39. My films have become bilingual. When everyone saw 'Chennai Express,' they said it was a bilingual. But I am proud that 'Chennai Express' is the highest-grossing Hindi film down South.

Rohit Shetty

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#40. My new play 'Chinglish,' which will go to Broadway, is about a white American businessman who goes to a provincial capital in China, hoping to make a deal there. It's bilingual. And it's about trying to communicate across language and cultural barriers.

David Henry Hwang

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#41. Well, my first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.

Daniel Bruhl

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#42. I have 5 children of my own. They are bilingual, like most second and third generations. But they speak primarily in English and they couldn't find anything on television that represented who they are in this country.

Robert Rodriguez

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#43. As an individual, and I have to say as a person of color, the thing about being an 'other' in America is I really feel like you're bilingual. I'm from a small town in Wisconsin, but even when I'm in New York and I'm working for MSNBC or CNN, you're used to being the only black person in the room.

John Ridley

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#44. I think I'm representing a new generation of Latinos - bilingual, bicultural people.

Genesis Rodriguez

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#45. I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.

Jon Secada

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#46. That's what I mean by being bilingual: comfortable in your skin, comfortable with all parts of who you are.

Henry Louis Gates

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#47. It is a noteworthy feature of 20C culture that for the first time in over a thousand years its educated class is not expected to be at least bilingual.

Jacques Barzun

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#48. I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.

Shirley Hufstedler

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#49. Among the disciples of Jesus, it seems most likely that at least Philip was bilingual in Aramaic and Greek.

Jay Parini

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#50. Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.

Natalie Clifford Barney

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