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  • We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. -- Benjamin Lee Whorf
  • We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. -- Benjamin Lee Whorf
  • Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language. -- Julia Glass
  • I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language. -- John Dryden
  • I believe the United States should allow all foreigners in this country, provided they can speak our native language... Apache. -- Steve Martin
  • The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard. -- Patrick Kavanagh
  • Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed. -- Casey Miller
  • Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all French-Canadian s abroad in America. -- Jack Kerouac
  • No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to invent their native language. -- Jaron Lanier
  • As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace? -- John Milton
  • 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
  • A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. -- George Stigler
  • For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of my stock consists of Filipino books written in English and in the native languages. -- F. Sionil Jose
  • Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • They're on their way to the foreign-language wing. That's no surprise. The foreign kids are always here, like they need to breathe air scented with their native language a couple times a day or they'll choke to death on too much American. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
  • Today, getting people to hear your story on social media, and then act on it, requires using a platform's native language, paying attention to context, understanding the nuances and subtle differences that make each platform unique, and adapting your content to match. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
  • In the UK, most of the nasheeds that I did were in my native language, Urdu. Youngsters who could not understand the language came up to me... [and] said it was a great experience to just listen. That was actually very heart warming for me. -- Junaid Jamshed
  • All that they lacked was the gift that descended upon the chosen disciples at Pentecost, in tongues of flame; symbolizing, it would seem, not the power of speech in foreign and unknown languages, but that of addressing the whole human brotherhood in the heart's native language. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • So, rather than becoming multicultural, rather than becoming a person of several languages, rather than becoming confident in your knowledge of the world, you become just the opposite. You end up in college having to apologize for the fact that you no longer speak your native language. -- Richard Rodriguez
  • To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing. -- Edith Piaf
  • I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history. -- Rick Renzi
  • I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy. -- Gloria Estefan
  • My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English. -- John Boyega
  • We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to their culture, but to the security of all Americans. -- Rick Renzi
  • For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age. -- Garry Kasparov
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