Quotes About Bilingual Language

#1. Part of my job is to make sense of all that I hear, and to retell it in a forceful way so that the decision-makers at Treasury can hear it. At least that's how I see it.

Elizabeth Warren

#2. 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

#3. Annoyance has made me bilingual.

Gayle Forman

#4. 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

#5. At last he reached out and with a gentle hand, closed Valentine's eyes.
"Ave atque vale, Shadowhunter," he said.

Cassandra Clare

#6. 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

#7. Undoubtedly Italians use hand gestures and body language more creatively and prolifically than other European cultures.

Ross King

#8. 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

#9. Any leaders who disappoint the people, ideals and promises by which they were appointed are by definition themselves dis-appointed.

Vanna Bonta

#10. Contrology is complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit.

Joseph Pilates

#11. You can have fun with a son, But you got to be a father to a girl.

Oscar Hammerstein II

#12. We are here for a reason, but we land up pursuing something else, and end up having something completely different, which we never intended to start with.

Priya Kumar

#13. Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.

Shane Koyczan

#14. It takes a long time to turn into what you're supposed to be.

Hope Jahren

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

Debasish Mridha

#16. 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

#17. I have a two-year-old boy. Being his mom feels like I have a present I get to spend the rest of my life opening.

Jewel

#18. 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

#19. We have freedom to demonstrate in Germany, but there is no place for incitement and insulting people who come to us from other countries.

Angela Merkel

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. If you owe your banker a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe your banker a million pounds, he is at your mercy.

John Maynard Keynes

#23. I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it was probably in my early 20s where I put words to music for the first time.

Lisa Marie Presley

#24. Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova Scotia to New Orleans. Farmer is a wonderful storyteller, and readers won't soon forget this tale of love and fortitude. Simply riveting.

Keith Donohue