Languages Quotes

We speak five languages, ... The problem is, my second language is profanity.

There are eight words or references that light up employers' eyes: languages, computer, experience, achievement, hard-working, overseas experience, flexible, and task-oriented.

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.

It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.

Most people think we're crazy, ... But it's about learning different cultures and languages. Experiencing different food, meeting different people. These were hard decisions, to sell our stuff, to just leave. We're leaving family, too. But this endeavor allows us to be citizens of the world.

We cannot be divided either by the languages we speak, by the faiths we profess or by the political views we choose.

You must have an ear for languages. To learn Spanish by hearing it spoken is the best way. This is what we are doing at the institute. This is causing schedule headaches since the next batch of students would already have started coming in.

The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or ''pure English, undefiled'' wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.

India was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. She was the mother of our philosophy, mother through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics, mother through Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity, mother through village communities of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.

It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because I was involved in reading Chinese history, or languages, or whatever.

Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy.

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

I have a good ear for languages.

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining.

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all.

There's a perception in this country that English is fine, English is enough to get by, and languages are only for the college-bound elite kids. That's what we're trying to overcome.

For business, English and Chinese are obviously the most important languages now. This is a phenomenon that reflects the change of the times.

The more languages I read and the more books I read, my world became bigger.

We're extremely pleased. It's about symbolic recognition of the loss of languages and cultures.

You have this preconceived notion of him [Sly Stallone] as a big, tough guy, but he speaks four languages and he likes to watercolor.

I got corrected in both languages, basically.

In Florida we aspire for our third-graders to read. In China, they speak three languages. Public education will not improve by reformation, it will only improve by transformation when you say our system no longer works.

Languages and cultural issues are not that much of an issue. There's usually someone on hand who can speak English as well as the native language, such as a younger family member or friend, but clients generally have at least a working knowledge of English. Culturally, the women often make the decision when it comes to insurance or have a heavy say in it. The men are more focused on taking care of the day-to-day needs of the business.