Famous quotes containing the words higher, mother and/or tongue:
“The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted by a string of refuse-barges tipping out their muck.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
“My mother bore me in the southern wild,
And I am black, but O! my soul is white;”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“My desire and thy desire
Twining to a tongue of fire,”
—Robert Bridges (1844–1930)