Mother Tongue

Famous quotes containing the words mother and/or tongue:

“Memory, workmaid and mother of the Muses.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

“Every old woman with a wrinkled face, a furr’d brow, a hairy lip, a gobber tooth, a squint eye, a squeaking voice, or a scolding tongue ... a dog or cat by her side, is not only suspected but pronounced for a witch.”
—John Gaule (fl. 1640–1660)