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No instance exists of a person's writing two languages perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.

Thomas Jefferson

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.

William Shakespeare

It's translated into about a dozen languages, ... but there has never been an American comic book that has made a dent in the Japanese market.

Stan Sakai

In Florida, we aspire for our third-graders to read. In China, they speak three languages.

Rep. Marco Rubio

Our constitution enjoins us to seek opportunities to advance the use of (all 11 official) languages.

Sibusiso Nkosi

The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

Larry Wall

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.

Kofi Annan

I speak two languages, Body and English.

Mae West

The less-academically able are giving up languages but they too could have some use for it in the workplace later on.

John Dunford

Canada's official languages program is arguably the most successful affirmative action program in history.

Bruce Hicks

All our non-English speakers are Hispanic, we have no other (foreign) languages at Michelson.

Albert Michelson

The more languages you learn, the easier they seem to come.

Craig Watson

For business, English and Chinese are obviously the most important languages now. This is a phenomenon that reflects the change of the times.

Noriyuki Suzuki

That startup cost has been prohibitive for us getting it into other languages.

Debbie Morgan

The Secretary of Education will decide which languages will be deemed critical to national security. My hunch is Spanish will not be one of them.

Andrea Baker

That woman speaks eighteen languages and can't say 'No' in any of them.

Dorothy Parker

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.

John Bright

This was opportunity for students to demonstrate their knowledge in the Spanish, French and German languages.

Dr. Tatiana Karmanova

When they [people of minority languages] read it in their heart language for the first time, they are inevitably blown away.

Ruth Hubbard

But Europe has changed, fundamentally, since the early '90s. Now the countries to which these languages are broadcast are members of the EU (European Union), or are likely to join soon.

Nigel Chapman

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

J. Martin Kohe

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

Working with the circus has been a great way for me to learn about so many cultures and languages.

Anita Santiago

The threats to birds and mammals are well known, but it turns out that languages are far more threatened.

Bill Sutherland

There is a perception in this country that English is fine; English is enough to get by, and languages are only for college-bound elite kids.

Marty Abbott

A whipper-snapper of criticism who quoted dead languages to hide his ignorance of life.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

I got corrected in both languages, basically.

Rebekah Hines

The children are not intimidated at all by the foreign languages. At first, there were a few raised eyebrows, but now it seems everyday to them. We all know that children are much quicker to adapt than adults.

Nancy Long

We have 119 million items in 460 different languages.

James Billington

We cannot be divided either by the languages we speak, by the faiths we profess or by the political views we choose.

Viktor Yushchenko

I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation.

Amisha Patel

The collapse in languages is a catastrophe. The Government is going to have to reverse its policy of allowing students to opt out at 14.

David Hart

And nobody knew. The Japanese pulled all of their hair out trying to decipher the code. But it's one of the hardest languages to learn, that's why it was never decoded or deciphered.

Chester Nez

Interpreter: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.

Ambrose Bierce

As languages become rare they become less attractive for people to use and speak.

Bill Sutherland

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

Eugene Debs