Quotes About Bilingual Language

#1. Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently. - Author: Shane Koyczan

#2. 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. - Author: Keith Donohue

#3. 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. - Author: Lisa Marie Presley

#4. 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. - Author: John Maynard Keynes

#5. 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. - Author: David Henry Hwang

#6. 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. - Author: Rude Jude

#7. We have freedom to demonstrate in Germany, but there is no place for incitement and insulting people who come to us from other countries. - Author: Angela Merkel

#8. 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. - Author: Franz Kafka

#9. 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. - Author: Jewel

#10. 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. - Author: Tim Scott

#11. I don't know or understand any other language except the language of kindness. - Author: Debasish Mridha

#12. It takes a long time to turn into what you're supposed to be. - Author: Hope Jahren

#13. 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. - Author: Elizabeth Warren

#14. 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. - Author: Priya Kumar

#15. You can have fun with a son, But you got to be a father to a girl. - Author: Oscar Hammerstein II

#16. Contrology is complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit. - Author: Joseph Pilates

#17. Any leaders who disappoint the people, ideals and promises by which they were appointed are by definition themselves dis-appointed. - Author: Vanna Bonta

#18. 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. - Author: Newt Gingrich

#19. Undoubtedly Italians use hand gestures and body language more creatively and prolifically than other European cultures. - Author: Ross King

#20. 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. - Author: Richard Rodriguez

#21. At last he reached out and with a gentle hand, closed Valentine's eyes.
"Ave atque vale, Shadowhunter," he said. - Author: Cassandra Clare

#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. - Author: Julieanne O'Connor

#23. Annoyance has made me bilingual. - Author: Gayle Forman

#24. 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. - Author: Alma Guillermoprieto