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Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a culture (place, language and history), the identity of an individual human being as an object for mimetic representation. -- A. S. Byatt
Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation. -- Bobby Jindal
I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general. -- Christopher Moore
Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history. -- Russell Hoban
I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history. -- Rick Renzi
Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything. -- J. M. G. Le Clezio
Mythology and history are my passion. I grew up in a religious family and learnt about our scriptures and philosophies. It's the language I'm comfortable with. -- Amish Tripathi
I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history. -- Frank Luntz
When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later. -- Noah Baumbach
I fell in love with words in all languages, and I read everything I could find, particularly myths and legends and histories and archeology and any novels. -- Kerry Greenwood
I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since. -- David Remnick
Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne. -- Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place. -- Helen Dunmore
It always trips me out that America, the most powerful and magnificent nation in the history of the world, whose might was built by immigrants from all over the world, only speaks one language. -- Cheech Marin
Let us see whether it is the New Order or me who will be the loser before Indonesian history. I have won. The New Order has fallen and my writings have been translated into 40 languages. -- Pramoedya Ananta Toer
My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me in good stead for the basic subjects of mathematics, English, foreign languages and history. -- Lawrence R. Klein
The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages. -- Ferdinand de Saussure
To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children. -- Polykarp Kusch
The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself. -- Pat Conroy
The two ethnic groups that remain fundamentally different from the Han Chinese - in terms of history, culture, language, religion and physical appearance - are the Uighurs and Tibetans. In these two groups, the Han Chinese come face to face with difference. -- Martin Jacques
Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history, beyond our language, beyond the links that have united us for so long, what unites us today is the future. -- Francois Hollande
Language is the archives of history. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In my world, history comes down to language and art. -- Theodore Bikel
Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information. -- Betty Edwards
History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it. -- Theodor Adorno
History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition. -- Terence McKenna
Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization. -- Orson F. Whitney
Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes. -- Spencer Wells
We are at a time in our country's history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language. -- Barack Obama
For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music. -- T Bone Burnett
Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history. -- Etgar Keret
It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language. -- Brian Friel
We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think. -- Dale Jamieson
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language. -- Hilaire Belloc
...that it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language. -- Brian Friel
A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future. -- Robert Payne
History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang. -- R. Scott Bakker
Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language. -- Slobodan Milosevic
Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language. -- Slobodan Milosevic
All over the world today, not just in the totalitarian countries, assiduous functionaries in Ministries of Truth are clubbing history dumb and rendering language insensible. -- E. L. Doctorow
If during their education our youths become alienated from their language, history, ancestors, culture and civilization, it means there is a very serious educational problem there. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs. -- Nelson Mandela
Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes? -- George Orwell
But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history. -- Thomas Lynch
Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne. -- Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

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