#vocabulary

There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#churches #community #continuum #distinguishes #dosage

By the time they are 4 years old, children from poor families have heard 32 million fewer words than children with professional parents. ↗

— Betty Hart

#stimulation #vocabulary #education

Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had. ↗

— Tanya Tucker

#express #feeling #had #i #kind

The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#biography #body #individual #island #joins

I've actually become much, much dumber through being married and having these children. I find that I'm not half as sharp that I once was. I can't even help them with their 4th and 5th grade vocabulary and math work at this point. ↗

— Patrick Warburton

#become #being #children #dumber #even

First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#dependence #different #different meaning #different people #energy

Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#aquatic #bizarre #creatures #fins #fish

The term 'too big to fail' must be excised from our vocabulary. ↗

— Jamie Dimon

#fail #must #our #term #too

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary. ↗

— Malcolm X

#freedom #out #put #ready #vocabulary

Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary. ↗

— Anna Friel

#being #brain #empowerment #feeling #forget