David Crystal Quotes

A community, once it realises that its language is in danger, can get its act together and introduce measures which can genuinely revitalise. You've seen it happen in Australia with several Aboriginal languages. And it's happening in other countries, too.

David Crystal

Recitation: by Male by Female

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CommunityTogetherLanguageYouAct

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

Jimmy Carter

DreamsBeautifulPeopleBecomeHopes

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can 'be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough' are not true. They are fairy tales.

Jocko Willink

StrengthTalentPeopleWorldEnough

I don't think anybody should get married before they're 30. You're too young to really know yourself.

Jeremy London

YourselfThinkYouKnow YourselfGet

Motherhood is like a big sleeping bag of guilt.

Anna Faris

MotherhoodBagGuiltSleepingBig

Don't give up or give in in the face of patronising ridicule, amused disdain, or being ignored.

Meryl Streep

FaceUpBeing IgnoredBeingGive

I work best when there's a safety trampoline of kindness.

Ruth Negga

WorkKindnessBestSafetyTrampoline

I think when your parents die, it is kind of like a moving sidewalk: you're not just on the sideline and watching them go by. You know, you're going to the same place they are.

Roz Chast

ParentsMovingThinkDieYouPlace

I'm the American Winston Churchill.

Michael Moriarty

AmericanWinston ChurchillChurchill

I know Packers fans are invested in the team - even more so than the rest of the country.

Clay Matthews III

TeamRestCountryKnowMoreFans

I have lately examined water, in which beaten pepper was steeped, and found two sorts of animals for shape, and each of those sorts to contain greater and smaller kinds: the greater I supposed the elder, the less the younger.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

WaterAnimalsTwoShapeGreater

All the kids at school would bully me and always wanted me to fight them. I never did, but if I wanted to, I totally could.

Anne-Marie

FightSchoolMeNeverAlwaysKids

The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 years - since Obama has cut taxes 18 or 22 times for small business.

Austan Goolsbee

BusinessPeopleSmallSmall Business

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