Famous quotes containing the words human and/or language:
“Lars Jorgensen: Its this country killed my boy. Yes, by golly, I tell you Ethan
Mrs. Jorgensen: Now Lars. It just so happens we be Texicans. A Texican is nothing but a human man way out on a limb, this year, and next, maybe for a hundred more. But I dont think itll be forever. Someday this countrys going to be a fine good place to be. Maybe it needs our bones in the ground before that time can come.”
—Frank S. Nugent (19081965)
“...I ... believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have somethinga great dealto do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing; and that we can deflect words, by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)