Human Language

Famous quotes containing the words human and/or language:

“Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“You can’t write about people out of textbooks, and you can’t use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.”
—Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980)