Famous quotes containing the words higher, mother and/or tongue:
“By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle, and we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Now that you are eighteen
I give you my booty, my spoils,
my Mother & Co. and my ailments.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“The gentle serpent, green in the mulberry bush,
Riots with his tongue through the hush—
Sentinel of the grave who counts us all!”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)