Speaking English Quotes

We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.
- Chuck Palahniuk

My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.
- Ted Cruz

I am sick of speaking English like this... I am scared that I have become a person who is always very aware of talking, speaking, and I have become a person without confidence, because I can't be me. I have become so small, so tiny, while the English culture surrounding me becomes enormous. It swallows me... I am dominated by it... Why do we have to force ourselves to communicate with people? Why is the process of communication so troubled and so painful?
- Xiaolu Guo

Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English.
- Ernest Istook

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.
- Ernest Istook

I'm bilingual, speaking English and body language. I prefer the latter, because I can speak it silently and without listening and while my back is turned.
- Jarod Kintz

Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed up speaking English and suddenly I could speak with all the complexity and nuance that I hadn't realized was gone. With Lucy I was a native speaker.
- Ann Patchett

To read makes our speaking English good.
- Joss Whedon