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«I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.»
«I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers»
Author: Ogden Nash
(Writer)
| Keywords:
belittle, belittles, belittling, juice, mother tongue, prune, smothers
«A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in»
Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
(Orator, Playwright, Politician)
| About:
Family
| Keywords:
fluent, Mothers And Daughters, mother tongue, resemble
«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 of theirs. I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb's bleat.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
artificial, bleat, bleating, brute, contracting, etc., etc, first of all, free expression, grammar, hypercritical, interjection, lamb, lawless, mother tongue, particles, poetic, quarreling, requisite, Rules of, speaker, stretching, truest
«Silence is become his mother tongue.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Silence
| Keywords:
mother tongue
«One should respect his motherland, his culture and his mother tongue because they are givers of happiness. »
«With your tongue, repeat the True Name, and your mind and body shall become pure. Your mother and father and all your relations - without Him, there are none at all.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
| Keywords:
mother tongue
«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.»
«When my mother died, I was very young, / And my father sold me while yet my tongue / Could scarcely cry `'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!' / So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
chimneys, mother tongue, soot, sweep
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