Favorite Quotations
Sometimes others just say it really well... and sometimes it is best said in Spanish. :)
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''Lo que importa no es añadir años a la vida sino vida a los años.''
"One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way." - Frank Smith
"The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language." - Ezra Pound
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart." - Nelson Mandela
"You live a new life for every new language you speak. If you know only one language, you live only once." - Czech proverb
"A different language is a different vision of life." - Federico Fellini
"Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery." - Mark Amidon
"A mouse saved her young from a ferocious cat by barking 'bow wow'. After the cat ran away, the mouse said to her offspring 'See, children, it pays to know a second language'." - Efstathiadis
"Quien no conoce las lenguas extranjeras nada sabe de la suya propia." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Babel es tal vez una bendición misteriosa e inmensa. Las ventanas que abre una lengua dan a un paisaje único. Aprender nuevas lenguas es entrar en otros tantos mundos nuevos." - George Steiner
"El hombre es tantas veces hombre cuanto es el número de lenguas que ha aprendido". - Carlos I de España
"En el idioma está el árbol genealógico de una nación." - Samuel Johnson
"The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." - St. Augustine
"You will never be completely at home again because part of your heart will always be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place." - Miriam Adeny