Learning English Quotes

I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time.

I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.

'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

My work on prime gaps lead to lots of media coverage, some good, some bad, some ugly, and some merely ridiculous. For example, a reporter of our university newspaper, who admitted that he is still learning English, wrote that "Prof. Goldston solved one of the most controversial problems in the prime number theory last month with support from his Turkish partner."

Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

A different language is a different vision of life.

But I also want to give them a pathway so that they can earn citizenship, earn a legal status, start learning English, pay a significant fine, go to the back of the line, but they can then stay here and they can have the ability to enforce a minimum wage that they're paid, make sure the worker safety laws are available, make sure that they can join a union.

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.

Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.

I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Usually the German translators do something terrible, especially with Tom Wolfe, which is that they make it local. So if the characters are from Harlem, the translators put all this Berlin slang into their mouths, and that's just terrible. You cringe when you read that. But there really is no good solution to the problem, except learning English.

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

If you do not learn English in this country, you cannot get anywhere. We are in America. We are not in Mexico, we are not in China, we are not in Saudi Arabia - we speak English in this country! And what bilingual education does, is keep them from learning English, so they are doomed to be second-class citizens.

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Our new immigrants must be part of our one America. After all, they're revitalizing our cities, they're energizing our culture, they're building up our economy. We have a responsibility to make them welcome here, and they have a responsibility to enter the mainstream of American life. That means learning English and learning about our democratic system of government. There are now long waiting lines of immigrants that are trying to do just that. Therefore, our budget significantly expands our efforts to help them meet their responsibility. I hope you will support it.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had spent the better part of the first two years learning English. John Steinbeck's book was the first book I read in English where I had an 'Aha!' moment, namely in the famed turtle chapter.

By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

When I was a child I did engage in an arduous struggle to pass: learning English, getting rid of my accent, becoming conversant with the culture in all its large and small aspects.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.