“They're on their way to the foreign-language wing. That's no surprise. The foreign kids are always here, like they need to breathe air scented with their native language a couple times a day or they'll choke to death on too much American.”

“Music is of such power and glory that we should be ready to devote to its study as much time as to a foreign language.”

“He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.”

“The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.”

“My subconscious speaks in a foreign language.”

“The world language is English as spoken by foreigners”

“Half the trouble about the modern man is that he is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.”

“Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it”

“Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.”

“Hegemonic powers often use assimilation as a tool when they are confronted with defiant ethnic groups. Language and culture are also carriers of potential resistance, which can be desiccated by assimilation. banning the native language and enforcing the use of a foreign language are effective tools. People who are no longer able to speak their native language will no longer cherish its characteristic, which are rooted in ethnic, geographic and cultural factors. Without the unifying element of language the uniting quality of collective ideas also disappear.”