Nanjing Foreign Language

Famous quotes containing the words foreign language, foreign and/or language:

    “If you don’t know foreign languages, you don’t know anything about your own.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “She planted corn and left the rest
    to elements, convinced that God
    with giant faucets regulates the rain
    and saves the crops from frost or foreign wind.”
    —Richard Hugo (1923–1982)

    “Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking for perfection. Of course I refer to that mighty master of language and keen student of human actions and motives, Henry James.”
    —Willa Cather (1873–1947)