QUOTES ON MOTHER TONGUE

“Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.” – Rita Mae Brown

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“A different language is a different vision of life.” – Federico Fellini

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.” – Nelson Mandela

“Language is power, in ways more literal than most people think. When we speak, we exercise the power of language to transform reality.” – Arundhati Roy

“Language is the foundation of civilization. It is a glue that holds people together, and it is the first weapon drawn in a conflict.” – J.K. Rowling

“The native language of the soul is silence.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.” – Rita Mae Brown

“Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.” – Samuel Johnson FAMOUS QUOTES ABOUT APOLOGETICS

“Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.” – Benjamin Lee Whorf

“Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.” – Gilbert Highet

“Language enables us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories.” – Suzy Kassem

“Language… has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word ‘solitude’ to express the glory of being alone.” – Paul Tillich

“Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.” – Edward Sapir

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

“Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.” – Flora Lewis

“Your native language shapes the way you think, and it changes your perception of reality.” – Benjamin Lee Whorf

“Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge