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)

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