Mother Tongue

Famous quotes containing the words mother and/or tongue:

    “Mother and maiden
    Was never none but she;
    Well may such a lady
    Goddes mother be.”
    —Unknown. I Sing of a Maiden (l. 17–20)

    “For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
    The saddest are these: “It might have been!””
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)