Foreign Language School

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

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

    “the young men who watch us from the curbs:
    They hold the glaze of wonder in their stare
    Our crooked backs, hands fetid as old herbs,
    The tallow eyes, wax face, the foreign hair!”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive ... and impoverished.”
    —Roland Barthes (1915–1980)

    “We’ll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee there’s no laboring i’ the winter.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)