Quotes About Origin Of Language

#1. The poet, in the novelty of his images, is always the origin of language.

Gaston Bachelard

#2. Epicurus (341-270 B.C.) was the last major Greek philosopher of the classical era to make significant original contributions to the study of language, developing a socio-anthropological theory of the origin of language.

Richard E. McDorman

#3. There are cyber threats out there, this is a dangerous world, and we have to be safe, we have to be secure no matter the cost.

Edward Snowden

#4. His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.

J.M. Coetzee

#5. Georgetown. Alonzo was the guy I always heard about. I've always wanted to measure myself against the best.

Shaquille O'Neal

#6. I don't follow the rules. That's kind of how I do everything.

Neon Hitch

#7. My first language, the true language of the soul spoken only on our planet of origin, had no word for betrayal or traitor. Or even loyalty- because without the opposite, the concept had no meaning.

Stephenie Meyer

#8. Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions.

Godfrey Higgins

#9. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.

Hans Kung

#11. Your religion of origin has such a bone-deep hold on you that, as with a native language, it's your only hope for true religious fluency.

George A. Lindbeck

#12. The magic you adore is in your eyes! The love you need is in your heart! The wisdom you want is in your mind! It's the journey within you seek not with-out! You are what you are searching for! You are the truth!

Abhishek Kumar

#13. The ultimate goal is a comprehensive classification of what is very likely a single language family. The implications of such a classification for the origin and history of our species would, of course, be very great.

Joseph H. Greenberg

#14. The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen.

El Greco

#15. Language is of divine origin.. Some may know this but do not realize its implications in their daily family life. Love at home starts with loving language.

Charles A. Didier

#16. The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the very social function of art as such.

Ron Silliman

#17. It the Senator can find in Title VII any language which provides that an employer will have to hire on the basis of percentage or quota related to color, race, religion, or national origin, I will start eating the pages one after another, because it is not in there.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#18. For if consciousness is based on language, then it follows that it is of much more recent origin than has been heretofore supposed. Consciousness come after language! The implications of such a position are extremely serious.

Julian Jaynes

#19. The bicameral mind with its controlling gods was evolved as a final stage of the evolution of language. And in this development lies the origin of civilization.

Julian Jaynes

#20. Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.

Carl Jung

#21. Racial antipathies have some roots in ethnic origin, but they are also generated, perhaps predominantly, by differences of acquired culture - of language, dress, habits, morals, or religion. There is no cure for such antipathies except a broadened education.

Will Durant

#22. How could I be sure of these teeangers' national origin? Was I using names of origin to give them a place instead, when it was clear that they were moving toward a new language?

Julio Ortega

#23. When a child enters your life it's time to learn [not time to teach].

Jaggi Vasudev

#24. I believe that if you speak from your heart each time you open your mouth, you cannot go wrong.

David Anthony Durham