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  • Language is wine upon the lips.

    Wine   Tongue   Lips  
  • What is a nation without a mother tongue?

  • See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning.

    Brigham Young (1861). “Journal of Discourses”, p.9
  • I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.

    Mother   Reading   Book  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.103, Harvard University Press
  • Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

  • Will we allow the decline of our language-the language of Shakespeare, Shaw and Steinbeck? Will we abuse our precious gift of communication? Will we bite our mother tongue with the teeth of indifference, crushing the taste buds of clarity and, without prompt application of the antiseptic of education, causing the gangrene of strained metaphors? Stand up, America, and let me hear your answer: Ain't no way, dude!

  • If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.

    Mother   Ignorant   Done  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”
  • When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.

    Mother   Father   Sleep  
    'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'The Chimney Sweeper'
  • Silence is become his mother tongue.

    Mother   Silence   Tongue  
    'The Good-Natured Man' (1768) act 2
  • Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life.

  • Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

    Mother   Race   Poetry  
    Johann Georg Hamann (2007). “Writings on Philosophy and Language”
  • The hardest thing is being with other people — it's like they're on a different wavelength, but only you know it. They talk about their lives and what's wrong with them, and you kind of, like, just let them go. It's a whole different language, and you've got to remember that you can only respond in their mother tongue. It's really hard to relate.

    "Lover at Last: Number 11 in series".
  • Only a handful of Germans in the Reich had the slightest conception of the eternal and merciless struggle for the German language, German schools, and a German way of life. Only today, when the same deplorable misery is forced on many millions of Germans from the Reich, who under foreign rule dream of their common fatherland and strive, amid their longing, at least to preserve their holy right to their mother tongue, do wider circles understand what it means to be forced to fight for one's nationality.

    Mother   Dream   Struggle  
  • Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.

    Mother   Art   Thinking  
  • Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.

    Mother   Body   Tongue  
    Horae Subsecivae Series I, Introduction
  • Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It's the language of the soul.

    Wise   Mother   Spiritual  
  • Friends started saying, "Oh, don't come. No vengas. It's dangerous for us, and we live here." Then there's also the issue, if you go back, and you happen to be Mexican-American, you get treated very differently [in Mexico] than if you're blond. If you say something wrong, they say, "Why don't you learn your mother tongue?"

    Mother   Issues   Mexican  
    "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.
  • This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

    Mother   Tongue   Wells  
  • I am not ashamed to reply to you in my mother tongue, however imperfectly, and am glad to be able to show that my fatherland means more to me than anything else

    Mother   Mean   Able  
  • The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and we must laboriously seek the meaning of each word and line, conjecturing a larger sense than common use permits out of what wisdom and valor and generosity we have. The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity. They seem as solitary, and the letter in which they are printed as rare and curious, as ever.

    Mother   Book   Character  
    Henry David Thoreau (1939). “Walden: or, Life in the woods”
  • For Poesy alone can tell her dreams, With the fine spell of words alone can save Imagination from the sable charm And dumb enchantment. Who alive can say, ‘Thou art no Poet may’st not tell thy dreams?’ Since every man whose soul is not a clod Hath visions, and would speak, if he had loved And been well nurtured in his mother tongue. Whether the dream now purpos’d to rehearse Be poet’s or fanatic’s will be known When this warm scribe my hand is in the grave.

    Mother   Dream   Art  
    John Keats (2015). “The Complete Poetry of John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn + Ode to a Nightingale + Hyperion + Endymion + The Eve of St. Agnes + Isabella + Ode to Psyche + Lamia + Sonnets and more from one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.758, e-artnow
  • The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.

  • The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously. That shapes our perceptions for life. That is propaganda at its most extreme form.

  • I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.

    Mother   Truth   Eye  
    William Tyndale (1848). “Doctrinal Treatises and Introductions to Different Portions of the Holy Scriptures”, p.20
  • Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for.

    Mother   Simple   Tongue  
    Jacques Barzun (1954). “Teacher in America”
  • Every call to worship is a call into the Real World.... I encounter such constant and widespread lying about reality each day and meet with such skilled and systematic distortion of the truth that I'm always in danger of losing my grip on reality. The reality, of course, is that God is sovereign and Christ is savior. The reality is that prayer is my mother tongue and the eucharist my basic food. The reality is that baptism, not Myers-Briggs, defines who I am.

    Mother   Prayer   Real  
  • The rhythm of my body is the same as my mother tongue. It is in this rhythm where I find sanctity, that I can return to my mother who is everywhere in the universe.

    Mother   Tongue   Return  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

    In James Boswell 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' (1785) 18 September 1773
  • When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.

    Mother   Rap   People  
  • "What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe.

    John Newton, John Cecil (1831). “The works of the Rev. John Newton ...: containing, an authentic narrative, etc., letters on religious subjects, cardiphonia, discourses intended for the pulpit, sermons preached in the parish church of Olney, a review of ecclesiastical history, Olney hymns, poems, Messiah, occasional sermons, and tracts, to which are prefixed, Memoirs of his life, &c. by the Rev. John Cecil”, p.379
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