Mother Tongues

Famous quotes containing the words mother and/or tongues:

“When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue,
Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep.
So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)

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