Language Quotes

Language is the roadmap of a culture. It tells you where its people came from and where they are going.
- Rita Mae Brown

The most precious things in speech are pauses.
- Ralph Richardson

I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like marbles--tabernacle and pharisee and parable, tresspass and Babylon and covenant.
- Penelope Lively

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.
- Penelope Lively

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
- Noam Chomsky

Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.
- Maya Angelou

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
- Marcellinus Ammianus

For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

I have been a believer in the magic of language since at a very early age I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out
- Katherine Dunn