Top 13 Quotes About Bengali Language
#1. In the Bengali language, there's not a real word for blow job. They call it "doing the ice cream."
Michael Glawogger
#2. I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.
Taslima Nasrin
#3. Leave a chimney-sweep alone when you see him, Chiltern. Should he run against you, then remember that it is one of the necessary penalties of clean linen that it is apt to be soiled.
Anthony Trollope
#4. 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
#5. The best way we can help our children welcome challenges is to encourage them to work just outside their comfort zone, stand by to lend a hand when needed, and model enthusiasm for challenging tasks.
Madeline Levine
#7. I sat down to my supper, twas a bottle of red whiskey.
Jerry Garcia
#8. I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.
Shreya Ghoshal
#9. Bullying Has Been Going On For So Long, That if it Was A Disease, Mankind Would We Have A Cure or At Least A Pill For It ... Already!
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Timothy Pina
#10. Me!" she exclaimed. "Where are Mr. and Mrs. Webb? They were sitting on my head when I fell in." She
Walter R. Brooks
#11. I'm scared that the pencil sides might disappear, just as a drawing can be rubbed out by an eraser. Bengali will be taken away when my parents are no longer there. It's a language that they personify, that they embody. When they die, it will no longer be fundamental to my life.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#12. I don't know Bengali perfectly. I don't know how to write it or even read it. I have an accent, I speak without authority, and so I've always perceived a disjunction between it and me. As a result, I consider my mother tongue, paradoxically, a foreign language.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#13. We even had a different word for Christmas in my language, Bengali: Baradin, which literally meant 'big day.'
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
