Famous quotes containing the words higher, mother and/or tongue:
“The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)
“My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.”
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)
“Break, break, break,
On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!
And I would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)