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)

    “So the gentle poet’s name
    To foreign parts is blown by fame;
    Seek him in his native town,
    He is hidden and unknown.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.”
    —Richard Rorty (b. 1931)

    “Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.”
    —Robert Bresson (b. 1907)