Mother Tongue

Famous quotes containing the words mother and/or tongue:

“I should like the whole race of nurses to be abolished: children should be with their mother as much as possible, in my opinion.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

“When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)