Mother Tongues

Famous quotes containing the words mother and/or tongues:

“My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor’s on the very day.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)

“People’s tongues are like grass, moving this way and that according to the direction of the winds.”
—Chinese proverb.