Native Languages

Famous quotes containing the words native and/or languages:

    We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end.
    Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)

    It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
    Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972)