#language

Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#always #any #been #canada #family

At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms. ↗

— Benjamin Whorf

#concepts #describing #flow #into #lacks

Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#cannot #duty #language #less #more

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#after #difficult #found #i #languages

My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures. ↗

— Jet Li

#children #chinese #chinese culture #culture #cultures

English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different. ↗

— Bai Ling

#china #culture #different #different places #english

The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich. ↗

— James Loeb

#ancient #attention #classical #could #day

Music is the universal language of mankind. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#mankind #music #universal #universal language

Its language is as bare as a monk's cell, and as uninviting. ↗

— Clifford Longley

#cell #language #monk

Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

#cannot #describe #fights #followed #frantic