Culture And Language Quotes

I'm certainly curious about people. As a kid, I moved around a lot. I was raised in a lot of different places, and thanks to working in the movies, I've gotten to keep traveling. I've always been interested in other cultures and languages.

I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.

That you've got to do anything that you feel is precious. I especially believe that about cultures and languages. You've got to be really conscious because time is running out.

Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.

Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

It's really sad for me that in the United States the Latino community is losing its culture and language, especially among kids born here - a lot of them can't even speak our language.

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

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

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Language is wine upon the lips.

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

Love is the single most powerful and important word and notion in culture and language. Until the power of love supersedes the love of power we have no chance of ever being successful.

Music crosses cultures and language barriers and it makes people feel good.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, religious or nonbelieving, man or woman, black, white, or brown, we are all the same. Physically, emotionally, and mentally, we are all equal. We all share basic needs for food, shelter, safety, and love. We all aspire to happiness and we all shun suffering. Each of us has hopes, worries, fears, and dreams. Each of us wants the best for our family and loved ones. We all experience pain when we suffer loss and joy when we achieve what we seek. On this fundamental level, religion, ethnicity, culture, and language make no difference.

Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages

in order to confer their lost Nationality upon exiled Jews , the British with the help of the League of Nations began to rehabilitate the old Hebrew country, Palestine, with its long lost children. The Jews had maintained their race, religion, culture and language; and all they wanted was their natural territory to complete their Nationality. The reconstruction of the Hebrew Nation on Palestine is just an affirmation of the fact that Country, Race, Religion, Culture and Language must exist unequivocally together to form the Nation idea.

Ads and logos are our shared global culture and language, and people are insisting on the right to use that language, to reformulate it in the way that artists and writers always do with cultural material,.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

You often hear attacks on international adoption as robbing a child of his or her culture, and that's both true and false. It's true that an internationally adopted child loses the rich background of history and religion and culture and language that the child was born into, but the cruel fact is that most children don't have access to the local, beautiful culture within an orphanage.

Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.