Mother Tongues

Famous quotes containing the words mother and/or tongues:

“My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.”
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)

“They say the tongues of dying men
Enforce attention like deep harmony.
Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain,
For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)