There are great big multiples of kids who are studying the European languages, but when we think about our economy, and the new markets we are expanding into, it is time to recalibrate some of our attention.
Language Quotes (1804 Quotes)
In Florida, we aspire for our third-graders to read. In China, they speak three languages.
Language is the light of the mind.
You just don't know how to use the English language.
Two nations divided by a common language.
The whole thing was chaotic. Everyone spoke a different language. I knew a little French, so that's how I conversed with Leone.
Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the Tower of Babel by which men sought to scale the highest heavens. Today computers hold out the promise of a means of instant tr
A people without a language of its own, is only half a nation.
We are a government that does not deal with niceties of language and packaging, it deals with action, ... I have no doubt that ... we will continue on this path and, in the end, the feeling will change as well.
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
You could see it in Kentucky's body language. When we start to execute, you can see it on their faces. They know LSU came to play today, and it might not be their day.
The traveler, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods of gloom, periods when he asks himself the object of all these exertions, and puts the question whether or not he is really experiencing pleasure. At such times he suspects that he is not seeing the right things, that the characteristic, the right aspects of these strange scenes are escaping him. He looks forward dully to the days of his holiday yet to pass, and wonders how he will dispose of them. He is disgusted because his money is not more, his command of the language so slight, and his capacity for enjoyment so limited.
I thought it was a reflection, not a whole reflection, because films never are. You know workers had English-speaking bosses who didn't condescend to speak their language. It still happens in Canada and no longer in Quebec. You can argue, as I have, that Quebec had the power to rectify that situation any time it damn well chose.
Language is fossil poetry.
First you learn a new language, profanity; and second you learn not to discipline your dogs when you're mad, and that's most of the time when you're training dogs.
On most given nights, with a flick of a remote-control device, the living rooms of average American families can be treated to a melange of foul-mouthed brats uttering language for which any stranger entering those same living rooms and uttering that same language would probably be immediately thrown out bodily, and the use of which in any polite company would earn its user a reputation as a boor and a lout.
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.
If you can handle some raw language, come on in, and have a great time with us. To each his own.
I was very proud of the emotional response. I knew it would be a challenge, but I didn't go in with any preconceived notions. I just tried to study their eyes and their body language.
Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical.
Not only does this scenario require familiarity with several programming languages, but it also requires a mastery of the application programming interfaces that bridge the different domains, such as ADO.NET or Open DataBase Connectivity (ODBC).
The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.
Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.
We're in a period of denial about the extent to which racism still exists as a structural phenomenon. It was just so evident in this storm. Even in the language people used.
I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.
Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.
After five years, we thought, 'Shouldn't we go the other way around and first reach out to people whose first music and language is Spanish' ... We are taking a 180 degree change of route.
Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.
In the works of the better poets you get the sensation that they're not talking to people any more, or to some seraphical creature. What they're doing is simply talking back to the language itself --as beauty, sensuality, wisdom, irony --those aspects of language of which the poet is a clear mirror. Poetry is not an art or a branch of art, it's something more. If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological, indeed genetic, goal. Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a ''read,'' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place, against himself.
My first language is Gaelic.
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
A lot of young people who begin taking the language say they are doing it for work. They hope that in the future, if they can speak Chinese, they have better luck finding work.
I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.
The children are not intimidated at all by the foreign languages. At first, there were a few raised eyebrows, but now it seems everyday to them. We all know that children are much quicker to adapt than adults.
I can confirm that I've seen that presentation and it contained that language.
Metaphor is embodied in language.
A child's hearing is so critical for development. Even partial hearing loss can result in an impaired ability to speak and acquire language.
One thing we need to watch is that he doesn't keep the screws on too tight and go overboard with these hikes. Everybody was looking for some language that would suggest a pause near these levels.
Touching the matter of the defilement to which the temple courts had been subjected by traffickers acting under priestly license, Farrar gives us the following 'And this was the entrance-court to the Temple of the Most High The court which was a witness that that house should be a House of Prayer for all nations had been degraded into a place which, for foulness, was more like shambles, and for bustling commerce more like a densely crowded bazaar while the lowing of oxen, the bleating of sheep, the Babel of many languages, the huckstering and wrangling, and the clinking of money and of balances (perhaps not always just), might be heard in the adjoining courts, disturbing the chant of the Levites and the prayers of priests'
These words that occur to me come out of my relation to the language which is developing even as I am using it.
Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.
True enough that standards bodies themselves have weak teeth, but they do have influence and importance when a language begins to be widely used.
High school students are in for a real treat. Chefs in the City(TM) is going to be full of challenging and innovative opportunities for students to showcase their talents, learn more about careers in the culinary and pastry arts and talk to some exceptional industry guests. The language and business of food can translate into some fun and rewarding careers.
I am in no rush. I just want to learn and be able to use the Arabic language. During the exams I will revise for just a few days before the exam. If I pass, it means that my language is okay. If not, I'll just re-take the class.
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
At the heart of the controversy in these cases are those recurring pregnancies that pose no danger whatsoever to the life or health of the mother but are, nevertheless, unwanted for any one or more of a variety of reasons convenience, family planning, economics, dislike of children, the embarrassment of illegitimacy, etc. ... I find nothing in the language or history of the Constitution to support the Court's judgment. ... As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today but, in my view, its judgment is an improvident and extravagant exercise of the power of judicial review that the Constitution extends to this Court.