Famous quotes containing the words taught, foreign and/or language:
“The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“She planted corn and left the rest
to elements, convinced that God
with giant faucets regulates the rain
and saves the crops from frost or foreign wind.”
—Richard Hugo (1923–1982)
“The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.”
—Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)