Mother Tongues

Famous quotes containing the words mother and/or tongues:

“[My mother told me:] “You must decide whether you want to get married someday, or have a career.”... I set my sights on the career. I thought, what does any man really have to offer me?”
—Annie Elizabeth Delany (b. 1891)

“The air split into nine levels,
Some gift of tongues of the whistler”
—James Dickey (b. 1923)