Father Quote by Anonymous

It was not surprising …that [my father] should seldom have long seasons of agonizing prayer such as some have experienced, for His closeness to…

— Paul Bearer

Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.

— Anonymous

When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain…

— Anonymous

Apart from English, I speak my mother tongue Malayalam, as well as Tamil, Telugu, and a bit of Kannada and French.

— Asin

Really, I was brought up with music as a second language. My mother was extremely encouraging of the sensitivities of my brain. It was…

— Jacob Collier

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

— Karl Kraus

Sarah Buckley is precious, because she is bilingual. She can speak the language of a mother who gave birth to her four children at…

— Michel Odent

Innocence is a language only mother nature teaches.

— Jasmina Siderovski

Eminem was someone that I discovered I liked, largely because of his relationship to language and to his mother.

— Hilton Als

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

— Anonymous

“Still, with an unshaken confidence that the English tongue was somehow the mother tongue of the whole world, only the people were too stupid…

— Anonymous

The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes…

— Amin Maalouf