Mother Tongue Quotes

41 Mother Tongue quotes by 39 unique authors

• Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It's the language of the soul. — Gabrielle Roth
• I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of… — Charles William Eliot
• I'm at the age when my friends have started having kids, and when my first good friend had a baby, the first time I picked… — Jessica Pare
• The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner. — William Cameron Townsend
• During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did the Arabs, if… — Unknown Author
• Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue. — Richard Reti
• What is a nation without a mother tongue? — Jack Edwards
• I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor — Max von Sydow
• Evangelicalism is like my religious mother tongue. I revert to it whenever I’m angry or excited or surrounded by other people who understand what I’m… — Rachel Held Evans
• A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother tongue are to… — Garry Kasparov
• Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to 90 percent. Some… — Amy Tan
• Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art,… — Jeanette Winterson
• The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously. That shapes our… — Marshall McLuhan
• Every call to worship is a call into the Real World.... I encounter such constant and widespread lying about reality each day and meet with… — Eugene H. Peterson
• Musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed. Any child who is properly trained can develop musical ability just… — Shinichi Suzuki
• Silence is become his mother tongue. — Oliver Goldsmith
• A grandmaster must memorize thousands of chess duels in his head, as these are for him what words of the mother tongue are to the… — Garry Kasparov
• Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. — John Brown
• After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply… — George Bernard Shaw
• For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can. — Kailash Kher
• When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules… — Henry David Thoreau
• I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's… — Bryn Terfel
• Letters to the editors of English and American newspapers often contain expressions of horror about the new terms that creep into the language, and these… — Peter Farb
• This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

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39 authors contributed a total of 41 Mother Tongue Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Mother Tongue Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
• 2 Mother Tongue Quotes by Garry Kasparov
• 1 Mother Tongue Quote by William Tyndale
• 1 Mother Tongue Quote by William Cameron Townsend
• 1 Mother Tongue Quote by Unknown Author
• 1 Mother Tongue Quote by Tom Wlaschiha
• 1 Mother Tongue Quote by Tahar Ben Jelloun
• 1 Mother Tongue Quote by Shreya Ghoshal
• 1 Mother Tongue Quote by Shinichi Suzuki
• 1 Mother Tongue Quote by Ritu Ghatourey
• 1 Mother Tongue Quote by Richard Reti
• 1 Mother Tongue Quote by Rammstein
• 1 Mother Tongue Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 1 Mother Tongue Quote by Rachel Held Evans
• 1 Mother Tongue Quote by R.J. Rushdoony
• 1 Mother Tongue Quote by Peter Farb
• 1 Mother Tongue Quote by Oliver Goldsmith
• 1 Mother Tongue Quote by Max von Sydow
• 1 Mother Tongue Quote by Marshall McLuhan
• 1 Mother Tongue Quote by Louis D. Brandeis
• 1 Mother Tongue Quote by Kailash Kher
• 1 Mother Tongue Quote by John Keats
• 1 Mother Tongue Quote by John Brown
• 1 Mother Tongue Quote by Johann Georg Hamann
• 1 Mother Tongue Quote by Jessica Pare