Galician Language Quotes

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

The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia. ~ Edward Hirsch

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words. ~ George Eliot

What finds its reflection in language, language cannot represent.

What expresses itself in language, we cannot express by means of language. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

So many people understand language, but few people understand the real meaning of language. They that understand the meaning of language understand language and life better! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The earliest language was body language and, since this language is the language of questions, if we limit the questions, and if we only pay attention to or place values on spoken or written language, then we are ruling out a large area of human language. ~ Paulo Freire

Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language. ~ Wilhelm Von Humboldt

To understand your beloved ones, you need to know feelings language, emotions-language, love-language, body language, compromise language and lastly the silent language that's the final step to journey towards the soul, be patient with the pure and sincere devotion that leads you together forever. ~ Ehsan Sehgal

I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously, you don't read a lot of literature and not care about language. ~ Twyla Tharp

Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language. ~ Frank Herbert

Facing a language you don't know is like returning to your infancy when your mother tongue used to be a foreign language to you ~ Munia Khan

My shirt and my hat always say 'World Champion' in some language. English, Spanish, Chinese, 'Star Wars' language, which is also known as Aurebesh, mermaid language. ~ Judah Friedlander

Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language. ~ Julia Glass

XML is not a language in the sense of a programming language any more than sketches on a napkin are a language. ~ Charles Simonyi

I'm keen on making English language movies. English is still the global language and we can't change that. ~ Bruno Zheng Wu

Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing, but a compromise- that which is common to you, me, and everybody. ~ Thomas Hulme

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication.
-Aunt Beast ~ Madeleine L'Engle

One must not be shy where language is concerned. ~ Ann Patchett

The language of logical argument, of proofs,is the language of the limited self we know and can manipulate. But the language of parable and poetry, of storytelling,moves from the imprisoned language of the provable into the free language of what I must, for lack of another word, continue to call faith. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club -the community of speakers of that language. ~ Frank Smith

Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom. ~ Umar

Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand. ~ Duke Ellington

Castilian Spanish speaking Spain is big, but is bigger in addition with Catalonian speaking Spain, Galician speaking Spain and Basque speaking Spain. Democratic Spain, Constitutional Spain, can not be separated from diversity and the respect to the citizenship ~ Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language. ~ Frank Church

We believe we can also show that words do not have exactly the same psychic "weight" depending on whether they belong to the language of reverie or to the language of daylight life-to rested language or language under surveillance-to the language of natural poetry or to the language hammered out by authoritarian prosodies. ~ Gaston Bachelard

Language, loose language, vague language becomes an out. Things happen. ~ Rebecca Solnit

One sacrifice has to be made: never use harsh or rude language. Foul language you can use; foul language doesn't hurt. Foul language is forgivable (though it is bad). But rude language cannot be forgiven. ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Language is the alchemy of transforming a thought into a word, and the word into a new reality. ~ Jennifer Sodini

Music is the language of the heart, the language of the soul, the language of nature and the language of the universe. ~ Debasish Mridha

Language is power, in ways more literal than most people think. When we speak, we exercise the power of language to transform reality. Why don't more of us realize the connection between language and power? ~ Julia Penelope

Verbalize someone's actions back to them. Menace them with language, the language mirror. Death by feedback. ~ Ben Marcus

Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language. ~ Errol Morris

The only living language is the language in which we think and have our being. ~ Antonio Machado

When a language die we don't know what we lose with language. ~ Patricia Ryan

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. ~ Hippocrates

You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well. ~ Elie Wiesel

I must speak a language that nobody else speaks. A language which was created solely for me. ~ Cathy Dobson

The "covenant" language in the Bible is not cold, legal language, but relational language. ~ Mark Dever

A great writer is always like a foreigner in the language which he expresses himself, even if this is his native tongue. At the limit, he draws his strength from a mute and unknown minority that belongs only to him. He is a foreigner in his own language: he does not mix another language with his own language, he carves out a nonpreexistent foreign language within his own language. He makes the language itself scream, stutter, stammer, or murmur. ~ Gilles Deleuze

Translation was never possible. Instead there was always only conquest, the influx of the language of hard nouns, the language of metal, the language of either/or, the one language that has eaten all the others. ~ Margaret Atwood

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. ~ Roland Barthes

The German language is so sonorous, isn't it? Beautiful language ... the language of poetry. Angry, angry poetry. ~ John Oliver

Whatever is language is poetic language and if the word required by the poet does not exist in his known language then it is up to him to discover it. ~ Lenore Kandel

Every language has a grammar, a set of rules that govern usage and meaning, and literary language is no different. It's all more or less arbitrary of course, just like language itself. ~ Thomas C. Foster

Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler findings. ~ Charlton Laird

Language is the dress of thought. ~ Samuel Johnson

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension. ~ Ezra Pound

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand ~ Novalis

The language of the land in the Parthian empire was the native language of Iran. There is no trace pointing to any foreign language having ever been in public use under the Arsacids. ~ Theodor Mommsen

Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language. ~ George Mikes

Fire and water and smoke and incense and chanting and bells and butter and blood: this was a language whose syllables were translated into physical terms; a language of the elements. It was a language that he hoped might speak to him one day. ~ Damon Galgut

Art as language ... in the future there will only be art. This common language will carry the message of love. ~ Theo Van Doesburg

Grammar is the breathing power for the life of language ~ Munia Khan

If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be ~ Mahatma Gandhi

A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates. ~ Kathy Acker

We all live in a small unique world, that's why we need at least one sole common language. ~ William C. Brown

A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language. ~ Frantz Fanon

Those who read in a second language write and spell better in that language. ~ Stephen D. Krashen

Theater is about language, so characters have to define themselves through language for an audience. ~ Jason Moore

Each time a language dies, another flame goes out, another sound goes silent. ~ Ariel Sabar

Writers in what we now call the Middle English period (late twelfth century to 1485) did not necessarily always write in English. The language was in a state of flux: attempts were made to assert the French language, to keep down the local language, English, and to make the language of the church (Latin) the language of writing. ~ Ronald Carter

Every language having a structure, by the very nature of language, reflects in its own structure that of the world as assumed by those who evolved the language. In other words, we read unconsciously into the world the structure of the language we use. ~ Alfred Korzybski

I think what you know in a language shows who you are in relation to that language. Not an instance of language shaping your worldview, but its obtuse inverse, where your worldview shapes what parts of the language you pick up. Not just : your language makes you, your language holds you prisoner to a particular way of looking at the world. But also : who you are determines what language you inhabit, the prison-house of your existence permits you only to access and wield some parts of a language. ~ Meena Kandasamy

Language is man's way of communicating with his fellow man and it is language alone which separates him from the lower animals. ~ Maya Angelou

If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible. ~ Robert Breault

Those who use language and have nothing but language to express themselves live in a cage that cannot feel comfortable. ~ Martin Walser

Hebrew as a contemporary language, especially for poetry, is no longer the language of the Bible; but neither is it not the language of the Bible. ~ Cynthia Ozick

Everyone knows ladies love Cajuns. It's in our blood and our language is the language of romance."
"Your language is the language of bullshit. You're just a couple of good ole boys with pretty faces. Women just ought to know better. ~ Christine Feehan

The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic. ~ William Carlos Williams

The language of sword is less powerful than the language of word, but most of
the people understand the language of sword with greater power than the
language of word. ~ Kedar Joshi

Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being ... Language should be more than just getting by. ~ Chogyam Trungpa

There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one! ~ Barbara Holland

Poetry is a separate language, or more specifically, a language within a language. ~ Paul Valery

I love the French language ... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk. ~ Oscar Wilde

English is a beautiful language, a remarkably precise language with a million words to choose from to deliver your exact shade of meaning. ~ Laura Fraser

We switch to another language
not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere at the same time. ~ David Levithan

We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about: they force the evolution of language. ~ Terence McKenna

What immersion has taught us is that comprehensible subject-matter teaching is language teaching - the subject matter class is a language class if it is made comprehensible. In fact, the subject-matter class may even be better than the language class for language acquisition. ~ Stephen D. Krashen

Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds. ~ John Lawler

Poetry remakes and prolongs language; every poetic language begins by being a secret language, that is, the creation of a personal universe, of a completely closed world. The purest poetic act seems to re-create language from an inner experience that … reveals the essence of things. ~ Mircea Eliade

I will never stop working on Spanish-language projects because that's my language, and because I'm a Latina and Mexican before anything else. ~ Kate Del Castillo

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. ~ George Orwell

I think it's important if you're American to have a second language, and Spanish is the language to have. ~ Thalia

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. ~ Lewis Thomas

Language is an art, like brewing or baking ... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt. ~ Charles Darwin

It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

Sci-Fi is incredibly challenging and has its own language. I have to speak its language; it's not going to learn mine. ~ Victoria Mahoney

There is language going on out there- the language of the wild. Roars, snorts, trumpets, squeals, whoops, and chirps all have meaning derived over eons of expression ... We have yet to become fluent in the language -and music- of the wild. ~ Boyd Norton

Astrology is a language. If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you. ~ Dane Rudhyar

When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language. ~ David James Duncan

It definitely sharpened my interest in language, the way people used language, slang words, speech patterns. There's a big advantage to being the outsider. ~ Amy Heckerling

I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate. ~ Jane Goodall

I wanted to write for all children, even those kids who might see language as a threatening thing, even if English is their second language. ~ Ursula Dubosarsky

Whatever Language Pakistan understands India should teach in that language ~ Narendra Modi

Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language. ~ Michelle Yeoh

I really love Anglo music, and the language as well. Like, my kids, they - born here, Miami. So I just - a little bit more familiar with the language. ~ Juanes

On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film. ~ Sam Shepard

It is terrible to see someone being beaten up by the English language. ~ Martin Amis

The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness, ... sub-language as superior language. ~ Theodor Adorno

The Hawaiian language needs to be studied globally as a language of life. ~ Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa