Speech Quotes
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I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.
George Fetherling
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Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at.
Northrop Frye
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Vatican II and the Space/Information Age began in the same eye blink of history, with John XXIII's opening speech of Vatican II on Oct. 11, 1962, following John F. Kennedy's call for a round trip to the moon a month earlier.
Eugene Kennedy
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To me no profitable speech sounds ill.
Sophocles
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Truly speech has wonderful strength and power, that through a mere word, proceeding out of the mouth of a poor human creature, the devil, that so proud and powerful spirit, should be driven away, shamed and confounded.
Martin Luther
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Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others say.
George Washington
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle
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Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In short, the lives of others.
Elena Ferrante
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Nothing shows the kind of fool you are as quick as your tongue.
Kate Langley Bosher
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When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
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Kindness is goodness hidden in the heart
More often than declared in speech.
William Kean Seymour
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... whatever men do or know or experience can make sense only to the extent that it can be spoken about. There may be truths beyond speech, and they may be of great relevance to man in the singular, that is, to man in so far as he is not a political being, whatever else he may be. Men in the plural, that is, men in so far as they live and move and act in this world, can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and to themselves.
Hannah Arendt
