When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are. Votes: 4
Bruno TonioliIf you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake. Votes: 4
Vladimir PutinA man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language. Votes: 3
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe stars have their own language, you know. If you're careful, you can learn it. Votes: 3
Sarah JioThat's part of that thing of transcending languages. Every person will have their own language. Votes: 3
Jerry GarciaAs our dreams make evident, the psyche's own language is that of image, and not idea. Votes: 3
Christine DowningEveryone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand. Votes: 3
Duke EllingtonIf we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be Votes: 3
Mahatma GandhiMusic is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do. Votes: 3
ZeddLanguage mavens commonly confuse their own peeves with a worsening of the language. Votes: 2
Steven PinkerJust learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint. Votes: 2
Gates McFaddenThe habits and language of clandestinity can intoxicate even its own practitioners. Votes: 0
William ColbyArtists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own. Votes: 0
Winslow HomerThe words are in my own internal language, and mean more than I could ever explain, Votes: 0
Lisa GerrardThe art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own. Votes: 0
Ned RoremThere's something about the rhythms of language that correspond to the rhythms of our own bodies. Votes: 0
Jonathan LethemThe denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives. Votes: 0
Joyce Carol OatesI don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own. Votes: 0
Frank HerbertI don't speak ... I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own. Votes: 0
Frank HerbertThe nature of language may determine what most people say, but I always speak my own meaning. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyIn the Trump language, words change their meaning day by day depending on his own political needs. Votes: 0
E. J. DionneBad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones. Votes: 0
Georg C. LichtenbergIn all fields black consciousness seeks to talk to the black man in a language that is his own Votes: 0
Steven BikoDance is so important in the world. It needs no language. Our bodies speak a language of its own. Votes: 0
Ibrahim FarahOne of the first issues I dealt with was the struggle to find a language, to find my own words. Votes: 0
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