For Poesy alone can tell her dreams, With the fine spell of words alone can save Imagination from the sable charm And… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty… — Bryn Terfel Copy Share Image
“The joy of knowing a foreign language is inexpressible. I find it really difficult to express such joy in my mother tongue.” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“These Cro-Magnon people were identical to us: they had the same physique, the same brain, the same looks. And, unlike all previous… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Melancholy persons are foreigners in their mother tongue. The dead language they speak foreshadows their suicide.” — David Kyuman Kim Copy Share Image
Letters to the editors of English and American newspapers often contain expressions of horror about the new terms that creep into the… — Peter Farb Copy Share Image
A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed. Any child who is properly trained can develop… — Shinichi Suzuki Copy Share Image
The hardest thing is being with other people — it's like they're on a different wavelength, but only you know it. They… — J.R. Ward 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
... Who alive can say 'Thou art no Poet - mayst not tell thy dreams'? Since every man whose soul is not… — John Keats 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
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
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible… — Shreya Ghoshal Copy Share Image
We're one race. No matter our religion, beliefs, mother tongue, or skin color. — Claudia Black Copy Share Image
I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
My mother tongue is Telugu. I was born and brought up in Tamil Nadu. — Aishwarya Rajesh 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
They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Even the Hindu neighbours had no way of figuring out what the priest recited, though it was in their mother tongue, Marathi.… — Kiran Nagarkar Copy Share Image
Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
