Linguistic Differences Quotes

#1. If there's any interaction between genes and languages, it is often languages that influence genes, since linguistic differences between populations lessen the chance of genetic exchange between them.

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

#2. I didn't like dancing in Canada. The managers of the clubs treated me as less than a cow. And Canadians don't tip so you have to ask for more base pay.

Chasey Lain

#3. When new technology in the classroom starts happening, some people get very excited and think of it as a panacea. It attracts very high amounts of money; it raises expectations, and those expectations aren't met.

Mitch Kapor

#4. You know, if you didn't pay close attention, you'd think we were the only people in Iraq and the only people fighting the terrorists.

Johnny Isakson

#5. I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides.

Elie Wiesel

#6. Our forms of government - though both cast in the democratic pattern - are greatly different. Indeed, sometimes it appears that many of our misunderstandings spring from an imperfect knowledge on the part of both of us of the dissimilarities in our forms of government.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#7. In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality.

Al Gore

#8. All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.

Barbara Kingsolver

#9. Finn whispered, "What has a head, thorax, and abdomen, but stands six feet tall?"
"A snowman?

Ridley Pearson

#10. If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

Jessamyn West

#11. Truth is within ourselves.

Robert Browning

#12. Can you create a vacuum out of a human life? A state where everything's possible but nothing very likely? Does something new emerge when there's no more empty space?

Dominic Smith

#13. In the Middle East, the weak perish quickly and autocratic rule seems to be the most effective governing system to combat extremism and overcome so many tribal, religious, linguistic, and ethnic differences.

Zack Love

#14. The great thing about idiots is that they're idiots.

Jason Sheehan

#15. A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

Ferdinand De Saussure

#16. My inner peace remains in spite of any outward thing. Only insofar as I remain in harmony can I draw others into harmony, and so much more harmony is needed before the world can find peace.

Peace Pilgrim

#17. If we saw tomorrow's newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#18. And what about all the good I have in my heart - does it mean anything?

Saul Bellow