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)

    My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.
    Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929)

    This is of the loon—I do not mean its laugh, but its looning,—is a long-drawn call, as it were, sometimes singularly human to my ear,—hoo-hoo-ooooo, like the hallooing of a man on a very high key, having thrown his voice into his head. I have heard a sound exactly like it when breathing heavily through my own nostrils, half awake at ten at night, suggesting my affinity to the loon; as if its language were but a dialect of my own, after all.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    What a wise and good parent will desire for his own children a nation must desire for all children.
    —Consultative Committee On The Prima. Report of the Consultative Committee on the Primary School (HADOW)