Quotes About Learning Different Languages

#1. I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

Santiago Cabrera

#2. Listen closely ... this is the most important thing you need to know while you're here.
Do not eat the haddock. They've been overcooking it terribly.

Veronica Rossi

#3. The geniuses of all ages and of all lands speak different languages but the same flame burns in them all. Oh, if you only knew what unearthly happiness my soul feels now from being able to understand them.

Anton Chekhov

#4. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Augustine Of Hippo

#5. Part of the reason people abroad resent the United States is something Americans can do very little about: envy. The richest, most powerful country in the world attracts the jealousy of others in much the same way that the richest, most powerful man in a small town attracts the jealousy of others.

Mohsin Hamid

#6. But then again, chance has nothing to do with it. Your two fates did not cross through mere happenstance. The two of you set foot in this world because you were meant to enter it. And now that you have entered it, like it or not, each of you will be assigned your proper role here.

Haruki Murakami

#7. I served with General Washington in die Legislature of Virginia ... and ... with Doctor Franklin in Congress. I never heard neither of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point.

Thomas Jefferson

#8. Your aunt's a handsome woman, Fraser, but she could freeze the ballocks off the King o' Japan, and she wanted to.

Diana Gabaldon

#9. But no one laughed. No one would. The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding.

Cheryl Strayed

#10. A whirlwind tour, I think, with each day starting in a different city, you wearing a different silk dress, tasting food the likes of which you cannot even imagine and learning how to weave your word-spells in all the world's languages.

Lisa Mantchev

#11. I chose 'No. 1 Ladies' Detective,' or I'll say it chose me, and it was an absolute blessing, for the experience of being in Africa for seven months and learning so many different things, from languages to foods to greetings. On so many levels, it was an incredible experience.

Jill Scott

#12. One man's larceny is another's just distribution of goods.

Robert Bork

#13. I'm Davey. I sing, make faces and swing from trees.

Davey Havok

#14. I am a little extrovert.

Kushal Pal Singh

#15. I could easily go one or two days without realizing that I'm so, so hungry. That's the negative outcome of what I've become.

Takeru Kobayashi

#16. She does not know how to measure her life. When Sam was alive, she measured it through his love. She had always measured herself through the look in his eyes. She is afraid of admitting that to herself.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#17. No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied
with reading a hundred epigrams.

Martial

#18. I would exchange everything for one child of my own.

Henrietta Szold