Mother Tongue

Famous quotes containing the words mother and/or tongue:

“All my life I’ve felt like somebody’s wife, or somebody’s mother or somebody’s daughter. Even all the time we were together, I never knew who I was. And that’s why I had to go away. And in California, I think I found myself.”
—Robert Benton (b. 1932)

“Letting the rank tongue blossom into speech.”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)