The Mother Tongue Quotes
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I like profanity - it's practically my mother tongue - but I try to use words that insult without demeaning, when I can.
— Seanan McGuire
Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.
— Johann G. Hamann
Shitbucket, hellfire, damnation, and son of a mother bitch, said Rosaleen, laying into each word like it was sweet potatoes on her tongue.
— Sue Monk Kidd
The mother tongue is propaganda.
— Marshall McLuhan
Facing a language you don't know is like returning to your infancy when your mother tongue used to be a foreign language to you
— Munia Khan
The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.
— William Cameron Townsend
Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue. A mother in Manchuria could converse with a mother in Nebraska and never miss a word.
— Will Rogers
When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.
— Emmanuel Jal
Silence is become his mother tongue.
— Oliver Goldsmith
I think in my mother tongue. That's Hindi.
— Anupam Kher
It's okay to be proud of your good English. But don't be proud of being poor at your Mother tongue. Only the scum of the earth do that.
— Manasa Rao
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
Though Urdu is the mother tongue of only 5 percent of Pakistanis, it is the official language of the state and is taught in schools nationwide.
— Dilip Hiro
An idle tongue is the mother of all conflicts.
— Dennis E. Adonis
My father's wit, and my mother's tongue, assist me!
— William Shakespeare
To lose your own language was like forgetting your mother, and as sad, in a way.
— Alexander McCall Smith
A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Simple English is no one's mother tongue. It has to be worked for.
— Jacques Barzun
For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.
— Kailash Kher
Melancholy persons are foreigners in their mother tongue. The dead language they speak foreshadows their suicide.
— David Kyuman Kim
See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning..
— Brigham Young
This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
If your Eyes are Positive, You will Love the World.
But if Your Tongue is Positive, The World will Love you. — Mother Teresa
But if Your Tongue is Positive, The World will Love you. — Mother Teresa
Hindi is my mother tongue. Even though I do not get to use it as often, it's still a part of me.
— Anu Garg
I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.
— Shreya Ghoshal
What is a nation without a mother tongue?
— Jack Edwards
You observe ... that when it's time to unleash a few insults, a man will always choose his mother tongue.
— Salman Rushdie
Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue.
— Richard Reti