“ 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
“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
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
“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
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
"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
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] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“La idea de no tener una lengua materna me preocupa. ¿Es como sentirte un nómada dentro de tu propia cabeza? no me… — Meg Rosoff 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
“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
Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It's the language of the soul. — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
“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
“my voice is the offspring of two countries colliding what is there to be ashamed of if english and my mother tongue… — Rupi Kaur 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
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
“If you know all the languages of the world and you don't know your mother tongue or the language of your culture,… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o 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
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
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
“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
“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 is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image