“Still, with an unshaken confidence that the English tongue was somehow the mother tongue of the whole world, only the people were… — Anonymous 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
The rhythm of my body is the same as my mother tongue. It is in this rhythm where I find sanctity, that… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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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
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“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
All the children in the world, when they go to school, have the right to study in their mother tongue. But we… — Hassan Blasim 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
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
My mother tongue, Mende, is very expressive, very figurative, and when I write, I always struggle to find the English equivalent of… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
“God in His infinite wisdom blessed humans with redundant tongues: one to outfit the mouth for speech. And a mother tongue to… — David B. Lentz Copy Share Image
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“Noam Chomsky pointed out, the number of possible sentences is infinite in any language; there is no limit to the grammatical combination… — James Crawford Copy Share Image
When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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“The "Garcilaso" mentioned by Markham is the chronicler Garcilaso Inca de la Vega, the son of a Spanish conquistador and an Inca… — Graham Hancock 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 is France. I know the league well. It is my mother tongue. Inevitably, there is an attraction for me. A return?… — Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang 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
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Having portrayed English-speaking Indian characters in British and American projects, I have always wanted to use my mother tongue in an Indian… — Art Malik Copy Share Image
Tollywood has a special place in my heart because Telugu is my mother tongue, and when I sing in the language, my… — Armaan Malik Copy Share Image
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The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
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We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity. It will not be an activity in… — C. V. Raman Copy Share Image
This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
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... 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
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