Quotes on Language Culture

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

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

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

Let us teach our people again to be proud that they are Filipinos. Let us teach them to realize anew that being a Filipino means having as rich and noble a heritage of language, culture, patriotism and heroic deeds as any nation on earth. Let us teach a steadfast faith in Divine Providence, a stable family institution, the unhampered enjoyment of civil liberties, the advantages of constitutional government, the potentials of a rich and spacious land.

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

They say people can think for themselves? Do you honestly believe that the chap who can’t pass primary six knows the consequence of his choice when he answers a question viscerally, on language, culture and religion? But we knew the consequences. We would starve, we would have race riots. We would disintegrate.

Language is wine upon the lips.

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

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

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

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