Mother Tongue

Famous quotes containing the words mother and/or tongue:

“Mole dog,
I wish your mother would wake you up
and you wouldn’t lie there like the Pietà
wearing your cross on your nose.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.”
—Ecclesiasticus Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 28:17-8.