Mother Tongues

Famous quotes containing the words mother and/or tongues:

“Why is it every careerist tries to turn his mother into a Madonna—to prove his intellect is a virgin birth, papa had nothing to do with it? It’s the sign of the misogynist.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)

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