Mother Tongue

Famous quotes containing the words mother and/or tongue:

“A mother understands what a child does not say.”
—Jewish Proverb (20th century)

“To the horror of all who were present that day,
He uprose in full evening dress,
And with senseless grimaces endeavoured to say
What his tongue could no longer express.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)