Foreign Language Quotes - Page 3

• I guess we all feel like underdogs. I remember being a freshman at Brown University and not knowing what a WASP was. We were reading an Edward Albee play, and - it was just a moment of accepting, certainly that I wasn't very worldly, but also that a lot of the plays that I'd been reading, let's say other kinds of family plays, were speaking a foreign language.

  Stephen Karam

  Reading, Play, Knowing

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign language.

  Morgan Freeman

  Basketball, Soccer, Baseball

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Many autistic people have this ability to learn weird foreign languages, and I think I've heard of autistic Americans who have been obsessed [with] Icelandic and learned it and speak it fluently, and I've seen it done in interviews on television.

  Jon Gnarr

  Thinking, People, Done

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If I reformed school, I would do two things: We can improve a child's IQ by three percent by teaching them a foreign language by seven-years-old. We shouldn't be waiting until high school when they are neurologically not ready to learn it. Second, we emphasize reading too young.

  Paul Orfalea

  Teaching, Reading, School

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Photography, Expression, Firsts

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• When I tour with a band, things get more unconscious and more automatic as the tour goes on. Music has to be like natural speech. It's probably like learning a foreign language. Thinking about the use of pronouns is not the passionate part of communicating with people.

  John Vanderslice

  Thinking, People, Passionate

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I work in Hebrew. Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages. Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by Greek, by Latin, by Arabic, by Yiddish, by Latino, by German, by Russian, by English, I could go on and on. It's very much like English. The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - Latin, French, Nordic languages, German, Scandinavian languages. Every language has influences and is an influence.

  Amos Oz

  Latin, Greek, Language

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Opportunity, Land, Understanding

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• The more foreign to me, to my existence, to your core existence, the more foreign the foreign language, it's really moving to me to think, to get to experience my own story crossing those boundaries. To have that experience that I so cherished as a reader. I can't believe this. To me, it's really nice because that would be a thing where I'm like, "There may be lots of Jews in my work. I'm not writing stories for Jews. I'm telling stories about people, and Jews are people, too."

  Nathan Englander

  Nice, Believe, Moving

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's now up to the states to figure out how they implement that definition of a well-rounded education, in other words, where they spend federal funds. The new law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, has suggestions like computer science, health, foreign language and geography. So there's no guarantee the arts will now flourish. Arts advocates are ready to help states and school districts with their plans.

  Elizabeth Blair Lee

  Art, School, Law

  Source: www.npr.org

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• My earliest memory is having my grandfather, who was born in 1899, read the newspaper to me in a foreign language. I was utterly captivated by the fact that he took the time to read it to me. I didn't know what he saying, it was in a completely different language. I think it was in French. But I was just so honored that he was with me and talking to me. It's extraordinary that you know someone from that time, and also someone that's willing to give you the time of day, who's lived through so much.

  Nina Arianda

  Memories, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Learning to say prayers in a foreign language...is not in itself the way to fulfill our highest human potential; there is nothing of transcending value to be gained from substituting one set of cultural conventions for another. People whose practice remains on this superficial level end up with nothing but confusion, not knowing who they are or what they should do.

  Thubten Yeshe

  Prayer, Learning, Practice

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• When you speak a foreign language, you become someone else. If you aren't used to speaking a language, and you start speaking it again, for the first few sentences you'll find yourself in very strange shape, because you're still the person who was speaking the first language. But if you keep speaking that language, you will become the person who corresponds to it.

  Eugene Green

  Finding Yourself, Shapes, Firsts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.

  Maureen Forrester

  Beautiful, People, Singing

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• I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language.

  Richard Peck

  Humorous, Sound, Gone

  Richard Peck (1996). “Father Figure”, p.69, Penguin

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• Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, America, Culture

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspiration, Learning, Knowing

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “The Goethe Treasury: Selected Prose and Poetry”, p.293, Courier Corporation

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• Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ignorant, Language, Knows

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• For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.

  Fabrice Luchini

  Sacred, Language, Rich

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• Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

  Aravind Adiga

  Study, Language, Columbia

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• The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.

  Ross Macdonald

  Wall, Book, Language

  Ross Macdonald (1996). “The Underground Man”, Vintage

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• Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can't speak any foreign language, I don't feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and the would be put an end to it.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Home, Thinking, People

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• The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

  Emma Bonino

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• trying to read his face. It was like a book written in a foreign language she'd studied all too briefly.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Trying, Faces

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.509, Simon and Schuster

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• His scowl returned. "Why, if they're supposed to be Greek, are all of them speaking with an English accent?" She laughed. "Didn't you know that British is, like, the universal 'foreign' language in Hollywood? They use it in any movie where they want to have a foreign feel to it, regardless of where it's set

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Greek, Hollywood, Use

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