Being a Bengali, I have kept in touch with the cinema of my mother tongue. — Sharmila Tagore Copy Share Image
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Marathi is my mother tongue; there's a certain comfort level speaking in it. — Mithila Palkar Copy Share Image
Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. — John Brown Copy Share Image
I think it's really hard for me... to sing in English, because it's not my mother tongue. — Bill Kaulitz Copy Share Image
They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue,… — Emmanuel Jal Copy Share Image
“In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
"What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother… — John Newton Copy Share Image
Apart from English, I speak my mother tongue Malayalam, as well as Tamil, Telugu, and a bit of Kannada and French. — Asin Copy Share Image
A grandmaster must memorize thousands of chess duels in his head, as these are for him what words of the mother tongue… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“I said "it is my first language, my mother tongue, my family, my people, my home; it is my heart, my heart,… — Joanna Brooks Copy Share Image
“The 379 letters from Tell el-Amarna ... are cuneiform tablets ... date from around 1385-1355 BCE ... include Canaanite glosses ... from… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“Artistic expression is about freedom, not about imprisoning yourself as an author within the boundaries of your mother tongue.” — A.M. Bakalar Copy Share Image
Unlike our neighbours on the mainland of Europe, we have resisted creating an academy to legislate over proper English. We each have… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
Once, a man at the customs duty check at the Delhi Airport asked me a question in Hindi, and I told him… — Vetrimaaran Copy Share Image
Will we allow the decline of our language-the language of Shakespeare, Shaw and Steinbeck? Will we abuse our precious gift of communication?… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
My first film was a Malayalam film where I played a small character and then my big debut happened in Kannada, which… — Shraddha Srinath Copy Share Image
Race is not the only differential in South Africa, in the new South Africa, where all schools are open, mother-tongue education is… — Frederik Willem de Klerk Copy Share Image
“The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It has been said ever since that the Brankoviches of Erdély count in Tzintzar, lie in Walachian, are silent in Greek, sing… — Milorad Pavić Copy Share Image
“Finally, I would like to point out that now in the age of English, choosing a language policy is not the exclusive… — Minae Mizumura Copy Share Image
“ Every person of intelligence should be able to use his mother tongue correctly . It only requires a little pains, a… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did… — Philip Khuri Hitti Copy Share Image
People over the age of thirty were born before the digital revolution really started. We've learned to use digital technology-laptops, cameras, personal… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Only a handful of Germans in the Reich had the slightest conception of the eternal and merciless struggle for the German language,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“There is no normal anymore,” he heard himself say. “You kind of…just keep going, because that’s all you got. The hardest thing… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“She tries to maintain a nondescript exterior; she learns the sideways glance instead of looking at people directly. She speaks in practised,… — Mohammed Hanif Copy Share Image
It needs more than ever to be stressed that the best and truest educators are parents under God. The greatest school is… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Tamil is almost like my mother tongue and for quite some time, I had been concentrating on Telugu. — Shamna Kasim Copy Share Image