Quotes About Bilingualism

#1. I'm reminded of the lady governor of Texas who, during a controversy about bilingualism in the State House in Austin, said if English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it was plenty good enough for her.

Christopher Hitchens

#2. Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.

Roman Jakobson

#3. After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question.

Stephen Harper

#4. As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.

Stephen Harper

#5. Bilingualism opens doors and provides opportunity to our children so they can shine and become successful in a labor market that is increasingly competitive and globalized.

Luis Fortuno

#6. Bilingualism for the individual is fine, but not for a country.

S.I. Hayakawa

#7. Bilingualism is not an imposition on the citizens. The citizens can go on speaking one language or six languages, or no languages if they so choose. Bilingualism is an imposition on the state and not the citizens.

Pierre Trudeau

#8. Salvation is not a prayer you pray in a one-time ceremony and then move on from; salvation is a posture of repentance and faith that you begin in a moment and maintain for the rest of your life.

J.D. Greear

#9. At first, we should read with a blitheness practically bordering on superficiality; later on, with a conscientiousness close to distrust.

Kato Lomb

#10. I was helplessly captured; and hopelessly enraptured.

Brownell Landrum

#11. Language, as much as land, is a place. To be cut off from it is to be, in a sense, homeless.

Lauren Collins

#12. I am fascinated by the dailies, what is daily.

Juan Ramon Jimenez

#13. Atlantic's Jerry Wexler believes first-rate records are made by first-rate voices. He certainly has worked with enough of them: Clyde McPhatter, Joe Turner, La Vern Baker, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Solomon Burke, Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin.

Jon Landau

#14. My motivation for learning Japanese was to translate a chemical patent, a job that I had heroically (i.e., rashly) taken on.

Kato Lomb

#15. Language is present in a piece of writing like the sea in a single drop.

Kato Lomb

#16. Overly literal translations, far from being faithful, actually distort meaning by obscuring sense.

Ken Liu

#17. People everywhere feel differently at different times of their lives.

David Bezmozgis

#18. Such needless death, so unnecessary, so tragic

Amy Harmon

#19. To look it at another way, surely there are many unfortunate people who have needed to undergo multiple stomach surgeries. Yet no one would hand a scalpel over to them and ask them to perform the same surgery they received on another person, simply because they themselves had undergone it so often.

Kato Lomb

#20. There is as little likelihood of squeezing an adult into the intellectual framework of their childhood as there is into their first pair of pajamas.

Kato Lomb

#21. we seem to be on a constant quest to keep America a country of citizens who can only talk to one another

Kari Martindale