Foreign Language School

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

    “Most of our occupations are low comedy.... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of the mask and appearance we must not make a real essence, nor of what is foreign what is our very own.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    “He had not failed to observe how harmoniously gigantic language and a microscopic topic go together.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “A man of sense and energy, the late head of the Farm School in Boston Harbor, said to me, “I want none of your good boys,Mgive me the bad ones.” And this is the reason, I suppose, why, as soon as the children are good, the mothers are scared, and think they are going to die.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)