Marathi is my mother tongue; there's a certain comfort level speaking in it. — Mithila Palkar Copy Share Image
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak! — Anonymous 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
We're one race. No matter our religion, beliefs, mother tongue, or skin color. — Claudia Black 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
The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner. — William Cameron Townsend 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
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
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
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
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
“The mother tongue of politicians is that of ancient Babylon: a language designed to severely limit discourse within a tower of praise… — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Even after the Hellenistic empire of Alexander’s successors was supplanted by that of the Latin-speaking Romans, the usual linguistic development – the… — Dimitri Gutas 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
“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
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
“ 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
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
“You said somewhere that you would like to write in one of the Nordic languages because they have more vowels, and vowels… — Luis Fernando Verissimo 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 Telugu. I was born and brought up in Tamil Nadu. — Aishwarya Rajesh Copy Share Image
Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It's the language of the soul. — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
I am very comfortable doing Bengali films because it's my mother tongue, which enables me to emote well, and my home is… — Konkona Sen Sharma Copy Share Image