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Saturday, May 11th, 2024
the Sixth Week after Easter
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Grammar'

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At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.
Paul Nurse, British Scientist (1949-  )
I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.
David Ogilvy, English Businessman (1911-1999)
Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.
Tony Parsons, English Critic
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Octavio Paz, Mexican Poet (1914-1998)
Statistics is the grammar of science.
Karl Pearson, British Mathematician (1857-1936)
I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
Carl Sandburg, American Poet (1878-1967)
In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.
Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss Educator (1857-1913)
The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.
Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss Educator (1857-1913)
Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss Educator (1857-1913)
Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.
Marilyn vos Savant, American Writer (1946-  )
I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.
Emperor Sigismund, German Statesman (1368-1437)
Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.
Richard Chenevix Trench, -
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
E. B. White, American Writer (1899-1985)
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher (1889-1951)
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