Language/origin

Famous quotes containing the words language and/or origin:

“Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“In the woods in a winter afternoon one will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window, with which Gothic cathedrals are adorned, in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)