Mother Tongues

Famous quotes containing the words mother and/or tongues:

    “There was a young monk from Siberia
    Whose morals were very inferior.
    He did to a nun
    What he shouldn’t have done
    And now she’s a Mother Superior.”
    —Anonymous.

    “They gathered up the crystal manna to freeze
    Their tongues with tasting, their hands with snowballing;
    Or rioted in a drift, plunging up to the knees;”
    —Robert Bridges (1844–1930)