If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My mother tongue is Punjabi, but my first language is Urdu, which was the case with the people in undivided Punjab. — Gulzar 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
When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry weep weep… — William Blake 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
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
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
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
“It was the history of the family, written by Melquíades, down to the most trivial details, one hundred years ahead of time.… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I'm at the age when my friends have started having kids, and when my first good friend had a baby, the first… — Jessica Pare Copy Share Image
Evangelicalism is like my religious mother tongue. I revert to it whenever I’m angry or excited or surrounded by other people who… — Rachel Held Evans 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
“Our mother tongue, so far ahead of me, Displays her goods, hints at each bond and link, Provides the means, leaves it… — Ivor A. Richards Copy Share Image
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
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
Every call to worship is a call into the Real World… I encounter such constant and widespread lying about reality each day… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“For a considerable portion of humanity today, it is possible and indeed likely that one's neighbor, one's colleague, or one's employer will… — Dalai Lama XIV 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
It was in Cardiff, and the cast was 60 per cent Welsh-speaking. It's the first time I've walked into a rehearsal room… — Bryn Terfel Copy Share Image
The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously.… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. — John Brown Copy Share Image
Being a Bengali, I have kept in touch with the cinema of my mother tongue. — Sharmila Tagore Copy Share Image
I've mostly worked in Hindi and occasionally Gujarati, which is my mother tongue. — Supriya Pathak 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
“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
I am not ashamed to reply to you in my mother tongue, however imperfectly, and am glad to be able to show… — Bedrich Smetana Copy Share Image
“Poetry is mother-tongue of the human race; as gardening is older than agriculture; painting than writing; song than declamation; parables,—than deductions; barter,—than… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
Here's my advice to my brown friends: The next time you're on an airplane in the U.S., just speak your mother tongue.… — Maz Jobrani Copy Share Image
I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an… — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
We always said if we were going to target a millennial consumer, then we had to do it in their mother tongue,… — Angela Ahrendts Copy Share Image
“Most of the best programmers I know are also very fluent in their mother's tongue, and typically in other languages as well.” — Kevlin Henney 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
“Class was what formed you, but didn’t travel to other cultures – it became invisible abroad. In foreign places, you were singled… — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language... it is quite… — Tom Wlaschiha Copy Share Image
Mothers have always held such symbolic weight in determining a person's worth. Your mother tongue, your motherland, your mother's values - these… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one's mother tongue should be typical of that art.… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
