“It happens all too often - people regret that their language and culture are being lost but at the same time decide not to saddle their own children with the chore of preserving them.”

“If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture.”

“Funerals and weddings often take place in the same location. Some would also argue that they sometimes happen at the same time too.”

“What happens to our thoughts as we clothe them in language, and how faithfully are they preserved when our listeners undress them?”

“They praise these tiny indie bands, but if a band finally gets mainstream success, the same people who praised them attack them for 'selling out.' People often play at being nonconformists to mask their own feelings of not fitting in.”

“Christian monks and nuns were, in effect, the guardians of culture, as they were virtually the only people who could read and write before the fourteenth century. It is interesting therefore that most of the native English culture they preserved is not in Latin, the language of the church, but in Old English, the language of the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes.”