Quotes About Learning The English Language

#1. I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life without learning the English language.

S.I. Hayakawa

#2. HOSTESS. Oh, nonsense! She speaks English perfectly.
NEPOMMUCK. Too perfectly. Can you shew me any English woman who speaks English as it should be spoken? Only foreigners who have been taught to speak it speak it well.

George Bernard Shaw

#3. I don't know if I killed my dad or not.

Jeanne Willis

#4. Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember starting school and not learning about him.

Jamie Campbell Bower

#5. You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

Noam Chomsky

#6. For those learning English as a second language, there is little to do but roll the eyes, tear at the hair, and grimly memorize each one.

Anne Stilman

#7. To perceive means to immobilize ... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

Henri Bergson

#8. new strategies in teaching and learning English language

Wilga Rivers

#9. Do not carry war with you or by small degrees your mind will alter. Her wisdom was still valid.

Laine Cunningham

#10. Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my heart was lighter than it had been for many weeks.

C.S. Lewis

#11. I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.

Benjamin Franklin

#12. A smiley face brightens cyber space. Smiling pics and emoticons are good netiquette.

David Chiles

#13. Of village: it is not called so because its inhabitants are of higher age on average; in fact, there is no connection between the words "village" and "age" whatsoever.

Jakub Marian

#14. Ho ho ho, tell me why you are not at home' is something Santa Claus could ask you if you stayed in a hotel over Christmas. It is most certainly not the reason why it is called 'hotel', but it will hopefully help you remember that the stress is actually on the second syllable.

Jakub Marian

#15. Annoyance has made me bilingual.

Gayle Forman

#16. Remember that lettuce doesn't grow on a spruce; and it also doesn't rhyme with it.

Jakub Marian

#17. She would thrust these thoughts away, miserable and horrified, wondering if there was any lower limit to the human spirit at its nasty, calculating, self-serving worst, not wanting to know.

Stephen King

#18. Clutch the bramble and you will be pricked.

Robert Jordan

#19. I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.

Mahatma Gandhi