Mother Tongue Quotes
41 Mother Tongue quotes by 39 unique authors
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Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It's the language of the soul.
— Gabrielle Roth
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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
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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
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The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.
— William Cameron Townsend
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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
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Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue.
— Richard Reti
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What is a nation without a mother tongue?
— Jack Edwards
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Silence is become his mother tongue.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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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
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Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.
— John Brown
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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
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For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.
— Kailash Kher
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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