Famous quotes containing the words foreign language, foreign and/or language:
“If you dont know foreign languages, you dont know anything about your own.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (17491832)
“I have been told lately that Fuseli was travelling by coach and a gentleman opposite him said: I understand, Mr. Fuseli, that you are a painter; it may interest you to know that I have a daughter who paints on velvet.
Fuseli rose instantly and said in a strong foreign accent, Let me get out.”
—Samuel Butler (18351902)
“Please stop using the word Negro.... We are the only human beings in the world with fifty-seven variety of complexions who are classed together as a single racial unit. Therefore, we are really truly colored people, and that is the only name in the English language which accurately describes us.”
—Mary Church Terrell (18631954)