Learn Language Quotes

#1. As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right from the beginning, but art is treated as a gift of innate genius, something we either have or don't.

Charles De Lint

#2. Read carefully, then don't read; work hard, then forget about it; know your tradition, then liberate yourself from it; learn language, then free yourself from it. Finally, know at least one form of magic.

Gary Snyder

#3. To be a teacher, an example, a leader, to learn language, science, and navigation, for with greater responsability one must have greater knowledge and education.

J.M. Bardsley

#4. I think human beings have evolved to appreciate narrative, in the same way that we have evolved to learn language. What is narrative, after all, but a kind of super-language, where stories, like words, are ways of encapsulating information?

Alex Epstein

#5. One of the many quotes on love ... Love can come only with time and sentience. We learn it as we learn language
and some never learn it well. Love is like a tool, though it is not a tool; something strange and wonderful to use, difficult to master, and mysterious in its provenance.

Catherynne M Valente

#6. Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the new generations have all to learn. There may possibly be books without a polished language, but there can be no polished language without books.

Samuel Johnson

#7. I speak English. I grew up speaking Bengali. This is the normal, the known, the obvious composition of who I am. Then there's Italian, this strange, other component of me that I've just created. It was a creative process just to learn the language, never mind to start expressing myself in it.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#8. Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first.

Timothy Keller

#9. It's always been clear to me, as it was to Michel Thomas himself, that learning to speak a new language is like learning to swim or dance - you don't start with books or notes on swimming or dance. You get into the water, or on the dance floor, with a good coach, and get on with it.

Akshay Bakaya

#10. People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say because I want to live here, I think it's only common courtesy that I speak the language.

Anthony Geary

#11. Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life.

Bryn Terfel

#12. The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.

Queen Elizabeth II

#13. Art is a language. It's not a skill. It's not a stunt. It's not something that you just learn to do and put it down. It comes from the heart.

Wynona Mulcaster

#14. I tried to learn the languages - Italian, Spanish, and German - not to successfully. Working on a European set isn't a hell of a lot different from working on an American set.

Lee Van Cleef

#15. Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.

Billy Connolly

#16. Blah, blah, blah. Demon boy, I can't speak that language. Furthermore, I don't want to pollute my brain by learning it. So it's time for you to learn mine. First lesson-I'm Say-been. I'm oft described as byoo-tee-full and mah-jest'ick.

Kresley Cole

#17. To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.

Rachel Cusk

#18. There is a thin line of me, wavering and not strong, that wants to learn the language of beasts and water and night.

Jeanette Winterson

#19. Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds.

Mahatma Gandhi

#20. Shakespeare is absolutely big in Africa. I guess he's big everywhere. Growing up, Shakespeare was the thing. You'd learn monologues and you'd recite them. And just like hip-hop, it made you feel like you knew how to speak English really well. You had a mastery of the English language to some extent.

Ishmael Beah

#21. Latin! The language of God! Or perhaps He speaks Hebrew? I suppose that's more likely and it will make things rather awkward in heaven, won't it? Will we all have to learn Hebrew?

Bernard Cornwell

#22. I have been challenged with the fictional languages I have to learn. I wasn't terrible at languages at school - I got an A in French, so I did well enough - but I didn't enjoy them. I'm not even sure if that plays into how well you learn a fictional language!

Nathalie Emmanuel

#23. All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which they operate. My language to each of them has to suit their brain.

Sam Mendes

#24. We all need to learn a new language for love - a language that speaks not in socks, pancakes, and paychecks, but in shared fascination with physics or poetry, delight in each other's uniqueness, and mutual practical and emotional support.

Barbara Sher

#25. I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.

John Milton

#26. Fiction writers learn about the development of metaphor, the use of rhythm, the way that language is compacted in order to express the feelings of - express their own feelings and the feelings of their characters.

Edward Hirsch

#27. From the earliest moments of life, children begin to learn the fundamentals of language. The most powerful influence for effective language development are the verbal interactions with caregivers.

David Perlmutter

#28. This little book aims to introduce the Thai language. It is intended for those who know nothing about it, but are keen to learn. We use the method of selecting 100 key words, and using these to make up sentences and present a range of expressions, so that you can "say 1000 things.

Stuart O. Robson

#29. Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.

Vincent Van Gogh

#30. They have learned our language and pronunciation, and write as well as we do, and even better; for they are so bright that they learn everything with the greatest ease.

David Barrows

#31. God, I want to give You every minute of this year. I shall try to keep You in mind every moment of my waking hours ... I shall try to let You be the speaker and direct every word. I shall try to let You direct my acts. I shall try to learn Your language.

Frank C. Laubach

#32. They who from birth have had no other speech than the trembling of their lips learn a language of the eyes, endless in expression, deep as the sea, clear as the heavens, wherein play dawn and sunset, light and shadow. The dumb have a lonely grandeur like Nature's own. Wherefore

Rabindranath Tagore

#33. And then, this she offered to me, my one truth: "Our language," she said, "is not spoken, but sung ... Not simply words ... and grammar ... but melody. It was hard ... thus ... to learn English ... this language of wood. For the people of your nation, Octavian, all speech is song.

M T Anderson

#34. How many languages can a child learn? As many as you will take the time to teach them.

Jim Rohn

#35. Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.

Edward R. Murrow

#36. Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

Theodore Bikel

#37. I've become obsessed with learning other languages in movies, because I was like, since I was like, but I learned how to box so why don't I just learn another language for a movie?

Jake Gyllenhaal

#38. Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes - I mean the universe - but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written

Galileo Galilei

#39. 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

#40. By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.

William Carlos Williams

#41. There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.

Robert Lane Greene

#42. I'd like to learn French well enough to write in that language.

Stephen King

#43. Afrikaans was the language of the white minority in South Africa, and the forced learning of it created resentment among blacks. Even so, Nelson Mandela made it a point to learn this language in prison in anticipation that it would help him lead the whole of South Africa.

Robert Lane Greene

#44. Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has given us the language and tools of probabilities. We have methods for analyzing and ranking opinion according to their likelihood of correctness. That is enough.

Robert A. Burton

#45. Love ... requires that you learn to read the lover in her own language, not translate her into yours.

Steven Heighton

#46. Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

Aravind Adiga

#47. You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.

Julianna Baggott

#48. Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first crude efforts the way their early attempts at language are corrected.

Charles De Lint

#49. Learn to say "please" and "thank you" in multiple languages.

Steve Maraboli

#50. It is really hard to completely re-learn how to express yourself without using words. When you take away speech, you have to re-invent the way you express yourself. You have to exaggerate your body language and your facial expressions.

Jodelle Ferland

#51. Above all, translators must be native speakers. It's not because they speak the language better
I understand that sometimes a foreigner can learn a language better than native speakers. It has more to do with having an intimate knowledge of the society for which the book is being translated.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#52. It was easier for girls. They could say This hurts, or I don't like how this feels, and have the complaint be socially acceptable. Boys, though, didn't speak that language. They didn't learn it as children and they didn't manage to pick it up as adults, either.

Jodi Picoult

#53. 88. Like many self-help books, The Deepest Blue is full of horrifyingly simplistic language and some admittedly good advice. Somehow the women in the book all learn to say: That's my depression talking. It's not "me." 89. As if we could scrape the color off the iris and still see. 90.

Maggie Nelson

#54. I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.

Mark Twain

#55. I want to learn how to speak Italian. For years, I'd wished I could speak Italian
a language I find more beautiful than roses

Elizabeth Gilbert

#56. I tell my students, 'It's an important tradition and you have to go back and hear this music and learn its language all the way through. How are you going to know what's new to play, if you haven't listened to everything that's old?'

Jackie McLean

#57. As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.

Bobby Jindal

#58. Eli's long fingers cupped her face, traced the nape of her neck, kept her still, as if he needed to give her every bit of his attention, as if he could learn her like a language, plot her like a course. Eli kissed Gracie like she was a song and he was determined to hear every note.

Leigh Bardugo

#59. I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.

Olga Kurylenko

#60. My wife spoke perfect Italian and she was very beautiful and very suave Italian men were crowding around her, talking all the time and if I was to even understand what was going on, I had to learn the language fast.

Clive James

#61. My parents would not permit ugly language in the house, which was okay with me. I didn't want to learn German anyway.

Alex Bosworth

#62. Imagine, I said, what could happen if English continues to grow as it has. Maybe one day it will be the only language left to learn. If that happens, I concluded, it will be the greatest intellectual disaster that the planet has ever known.

David Crystal

#63. If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.

Joanne Harris

#64. This country try to take everything from you. Your language, your food, your children.
Learn how to use chopsticks.
This country can't have everything.

Nicola Yoon

#65. The English Language Amendment says above all, 'Let's see to it that our children, our young people, learn English. Let us not deny them the opportunity to participate in American life, so that they can go as far as their dreams and talents can take them.

S.I. Hayakawa

#66. Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias.

Mahatma Gandhi

#67. He was never very good at talking about feelings. He'd been on his own for so long that it was as if he'd had to learn a new language

Ann Cleeves

#68. As you can hear, it's difficult to learn another language after forty.

Edmund White

#69. Learn a language of another country and then you can go to that country: a place where the problems of your family will not follow. A language they do not speak.

Alice Sebold

#70. If we could talk to the animals, learn their languages, maybe take an animal degree ...

Rex Harrison

#71. Nobody knows everything-one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-and everybody makes mistakes.

Mary Norris

#72. Music came first and I started to jam with people I couldn't communicate in their language. Then, because I could make friends thanks to music, they started to talk to me. Then I started to learn English.

Hiromi

#73. I think that young Australians ought to be taking language education much more seriously. I mean, you know, every day I'm meeting people with expertise, ability and talent in fields where I want to learn so much more; science, for example.

Quentin Bryce

#74. There are some who are born with talents and there are some who develop them in the form of skills. I am a part of the latter." - Neetu Sugandh!

Neetu Sugandh

#75. Europeans hate the way Americans talk. They think we're loud and uncouth and they don't like our jokes, except for Michael Moore. Plus, they resent the fact that they've had to learn our language because if they didn't we wouldn't buy their stupid metric widgets or visit their overpriced ruins.

Denis Boyles

#76. If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.

Yao Ming

#77. Greek is a wonderfully rich and expressive language, which makes it one of the harder of the European tongues to learn. The active vocabulary is much bigger than other European languages. The constructions and the different endings are not easy to master, especially if you are an English speaker.

John Mole

#78. If (or rather when) you move to death, you'll learn its language through the educational process known as total immersion. (7)

Sandra M. Gilbert

#79. Even if I did speak Irish, I'd always be considered an outsider here, wouldn't I? I may learn the password but the language of the tribe will always elude me, won't it? The private core will always be ... hermetic, won't it?

Brian Friel

#80. Obviously no language is innate. Take any kid from any race, bring them up in any culture and they will learn the language equally quickly. So no particular language is in the genes. But what might be in the genes is the ability to acquire language.

Steven Pinker

#81. I have an impeccable memory, and I can learn dialogues in any language in 20 minutes, including Telugu and Malayalam.

Katrina Kaif

#82. In China, I realized that if you visit often enough and learn the language, you will be assimilated, but you'll still be kept at arm's length; you'll always be looked on as a foreigner.

Abigail Washburn

#83. I think it's harder to learn a language without having a goal.

Romain Duris

#84. Through yoga, meditation and other spiritual practices, we can learn the ways of personal equanimity. We can also learn how to use language in beneficial ways.

Satish Kumar

#85. If you learn the language of loss early, I think you seek out others who have experienced the same thing, who speak that same language of loss.

Anderson Cooper

#86. He's bad at words, but he's still talking to us. We just have to learn his language.

Kit Rocha

#87. Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world.

Kate Grenville

#88. I very much wish that some day or other you may have time to learn Greek, because that language is an idea. Even a little of it is like manure to the soil of the mind, and makes it bear finer flowers.

Sara Coleridge

#89. I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have such a gift with language.

Angelina Jolie

#90. The person who thinks dogs can't talk doesn't want to learn a second language.

Mark Winik

#91. In this beginner-friendly book, called 'Learn to Program with Minecraft,' you will learn how to do cool things in Minecraft using the Python programming language. No prior programming experience is needed.

Mark Frauenfelder

#92. Ava's father believed that myths and fairy tales - like dreams - opened a window into the unconscious. by listening to the language of dreams and old tales, he said, all humans could learn to understand themselves and the world, better.

Kate Forsyth

#93. Keep in mind that the languages that you choose now will be the ones that you orchestrate mostly from home. There's no reason that your child can't take advantage of opportunities to learn a third language (or even more) in the future.

Naomi Steiner

#94. In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances.

Seth Lloyd

#95. A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

Mark Twain

#96. Sci-Fi is incredibly challenging and has its own language. I have to speak its language; it's not going to learn mine.

Victoria Mahoney

#97. Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Theodore Roosevelt

#98. If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our language away from us. What makes us love a subject like English is when we learn all these fantastic stories. Feeding the imagination is what makes a subject come alive.

Daniel Tammet

#99. After the turmoil of the Second World War, my family ended up in Russian-occupied East Germany. When I attended fourth grade, I had to learn Russian as my first foreign language in school. I found this quite difficult because of the Cyrillic alphabet, but as time went on, I seemed to do all right.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#100. Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.

Edith Head