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
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
... 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
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
“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
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
“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
Things that are so hard for people, like playing championship-level Go and poker, have turned out to be relatively easy for the… — Oren Etzioni 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
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
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
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
“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 "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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
I am not really missing theatre as I get to act in films, that too in different languages, such as Tamil, Telugu,… — Atul Kulkarni 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
For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can. — Kailash Kher 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
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
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
“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
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
“Every person of intelligence should be able to use his mother tongue correctly. It only requires a little pains, a little care,… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
“And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue has exhausted… — Guy Deutscher 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
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
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
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
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
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
![“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 you go back, and you happen to be Mexican-American, you get treated very differently [in Mexico] than if you're blond. If you say something wrong, they say, "Why don't you…” quote by Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07b/sandra-cisneros-862_dangerous_friends-started-saying-oh-don-t-come-no_2950750.jpg)
