Famous quotes containing the words higher, mother and/or tongue:
“Nothing is higher than the love of truth.”
—Aurelius Clemens Prudentius (c. 348–405)
“Have you not love enough to bear with me,
When that rash humor which my mother gave me
Makes me forgetful?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Ye could not know where lies a thing so fair,
No stone is there to show, no tongue to say,
What was; no dirge, except the hollow sea’s,
Mourns o’er the beauty of the Cyclades.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)