Tamil is almost like my mother tongue and for quite some time, I had been concentrating on Telugu. — Shamna Kasim Copy Share Image
We're one race. No matter our religion, beliefs, mother tongue, or skin color. — Claudia Black Copy Share Image
I've mostly worked in Hindi and occasionally Gujarati, which is my mother tongue. — Supriya Pathak Copy Share Image
I think it's really hard for me... to sing in English, because it's not my mother tongue. — Bill Kaulitz 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
They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak! — Anonymous 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
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
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 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
"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
“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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
Friends started saying, "Oh, don't come. No vengas. It's dangerous for us, and we live here." Then there's also the issue, if… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
If I don't make heritage visible and the strength of mother tongue important for my grandchildren, it scares me that they might… — Hugh Masekela 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
“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
“Consider the term Mother Tongue. In Russian the term is Rodnoi-yazyk, which means Nearest or Dearest Tongue. At a pinch one could… — John Berger 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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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