Quotes About Official Language

#1. I think we can all agree that the official language of the United States should be Latin.

Michel Templet

#2. Clutter is the official language used by corporations to hide their mistakes.

William Zinsser

#3. Though Urdu is the mother tongue of only 5 percent of Pakistanis, it is the official language of the state and is taught in schools nationwide.

Dilip Hiro

#4. Any place where they got to vote on whether English is the official language don't belong in the United States.

Patricia Cornwell

#5. English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.

Ernest Istook

#6. I support local solutions to illegal immigration as protected by the 10th amendment. I support making English the official language of all documents and contracts..

Rand Paul

#7. It became the country's official language in the 13th century under the reign of Alfonso X el Sabio (the wise one) as he tried to unify a country that was housing a number of languages, including arabic, hebrew and latin.

Pilar Orti

#8. We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

#9. The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language.

Frank Church

#10. Stop being silly, her name is Reshidatu. It is a pity that our official language is English, and a greater pity that our three major languages is the WaZoBia.

S.A. David

#11. In fact, for a period stretching over seven hundred years, the international language of science was Arabic. For this was the language of the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, and thus the official language of the vast Islamic Empire that, by the early eighth century CE, stretched from India to Spain.

Jim Al-Khalili

#12. Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.

Ernest Istook

#13. I've long believed that having multiple official languages makes it very hard to sustain a united polity.

Kevin Drum

#14. My parents have always been very open.

Zoe Lister-Jones

#15. After the non-Japanese Carlos Ghosn was brought in by Nissan to turn around the struggling auto manufacturer, he made English the company's official working language.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#16. The more steps you take towards the end, the fewer steps you have to take towards the end!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#17. But aren't all of us like a fine weaving? The pattern the world sees often hides the threads." Tess

Kate Elliott

#18. My plays have been translated into all of the official languages of South Africa except Afrikaans.

Zakes Mda

#19. Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rights that led to Harvey Milk being shot.

P. J. O'Rourke

#20. What are you planning?" "Something very stupid, I think.

Sarah J. Maas

#21. To understand the seriousness of abortion, one must know the physiology of human development. Ignorance of these facts is in part why mothers are willing to have an abortion and the general public allows abortions on demand.

John S. Feinberg

#22. Catholic dioceses typically spent hundreds of thousands of dollars recklessly, then filed for bankruptcy. The goal was to avoid the money going to the hands of victims of predator priests.

Dan Rather

#23. Siarad Cymraeg?" said Old Shacob.
"He wants to know if you speak Welsh," said the surveyor.
"NO!" yelled the official at the old man before him.
"Tamn it all; his language, man!" shouted Dan. "What you expect in Wales - Chinese, or what?!

Geraint Goodwin

#24. I read the graffiti written on the walls of my brain. Then I use my writing to give it voice so it won't simply be "whispered in the sounds of silence." (Apologies to Paul Simon)

Dick Peterson

#25. I've always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.

Malcolm McDowell

#26. To be happy, it first takes being comfortable being in your own shoes. The rest can work up from there.

Sophia Bush

#27. All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.

Roland Barthes