BABEL BOOK QUOTES

“Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.” – Victor Hugo

“One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.” – Frank Smith

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

“Language is the dress of thought.” – Samuel Johnson

“Language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” – Gustave Flaubert

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

“Language is power, in ways more literal than most people think. When we speak, we exercise the power to create our own reality, to change the world around us, to affect the thoughts and actions of others.” – Julie Sedivy

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

“Language is the only homeland.” – Czesław Miłosz

“In language, in its plainest everyday use, we command and obey. We ask questions and give orders, make statements and requests, and express hope, gratitude, pleasure, condolence, and our deepest fears.” – Mary Norris

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

“Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.” – Rita Mae Brown AMARK TWAIN QUOTE ABOUT FRIENDS

“Language is the most important thing we humans create.” – Anthony Burgess

“Language is the key to the heart of people.” – Ahmed Deedat

“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

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

“Language is wine upon the lips.” – Virginia Woolf

“Language forms our understanding of the world, our understanding of ourselves, and our ability to express our feelings and thoughts to others.” – Katie Harris

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

“Language is the constant companion of our unfolding lives.” – Vera John-Steiner

“Language is the house of being.” – Martin Heidegger

“Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible.” – Mary Norris

“Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson