#language

Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. ↗

— George Crane

#life #public #life

While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty. ↗

— Jose Rizal

#liberty #marks #people #preserves #while

We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught from this was not to begin a sentence with And. I pointed out that most sentences in the Bible began with And, but I was told that English had changed since the time of King James. In that case, I argued, why make us read the Bible? But it was in vain. Robert Graves was very keen on the symbolism and mysticism in the Bible at that time. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#language #change

Când ne deschidem tu mie şi eu ţie, când ne scufundăm tu în mine şi eu în tine, când ne pierdem tu în mine şi eu în tine, Abia atunci eu sunt eu şi tu eşti tu. ↗

— Bernhard Schlink

#love #poetry #romanian-language #inspirational

A native tongue, in my opinion, isn't the language spoken where you were born or the first language you learned; it's a language that makes you feel at home. It's a language that you don't command, but that commands you. And without it, you'd feel lost, unsure of how to express to the world everything you care enough to express. ↗

— Adi Alsaid

#home

silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation. ↗

— Rumi

#power-of-words #remaining-silent #words

Verbalize someone's actions back to them. Menace them with language, the language mirror. Death by feedback. ↗

— Ben Marcus

#death

Language is a virus from outer space ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#language

Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all. ↗

— Patricia A. McKillip

#language #meaning #words #language

Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#language #patriarchy #language