Mother Tongue Quotes

• If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leadership, Travel, Crazy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Running, Communication, Inspiration

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• The rhythm of my body is the same as my mother tongue. It is in this rhythm where I find sanctity, that I can return to my mother who is everywhere in the universe.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Mother, Tongue, Return

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.

  Kailash Kher

  Mother, Thinking, Magic

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• See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning.

  Brigham Young

  Education, Mother, Children

  Brigham Young (1861). “Journal of Discourses”, p.9

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• Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Business, Communication, Past

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1840). “The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Prose and Verse: Complete in One Volume”, p.313

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• I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sorry, Communication, Tongue

  In James Boswell 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' (1785) 18 September 1773

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• What is a nation without a mother tongue?

  Jack Edwards

  Mother, Tongue, Language

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• The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously. That shapes our perceptions for life. That is propaganda at its most extreme form.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mother, Children, Perception

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• Language is wine upon the lips.

  Virginia Woolf

  Wine, Tongue, Lips

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• This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Mother, Tongue, Wells

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• I am not ashamed to reply to you in my mother tongue, however imperfectly, and am glad to be able to show that my fatherland means more to me than anything else

  Bedrich Smetana

  Mother, Mean, Able

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• Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It's the language of the soul.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Wise, Mother, Spiritual

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• If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mother, Ignorant, Done

  Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”

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• They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak.

  George W. Bush

  Mother, Father, Tongue

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• I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor

  Max von Sydow

  Mother, Thinking, Musical

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• An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one's mother tongue should be typical of that art.
  The sense of reality should be strengthened from the beginning, yet by no means at the cost of those lofty illusions we call patriotism, veneration, love.

  Louis Sullivan

  Mother, Art, Mean

  Louis Sullivan, Robert Twombly (1988). “The Public Papers”, p.156, University of Chicago Press

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• The mother tongue is propaganda.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mother, Tongue, Propaganda

  Marshall McLuhan (2014). “Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication”, p.119, Routledge

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• Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

  Orson Scott Card

  Parenting, Language Words, Silence

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• Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Mother, Race, Poetry

  Johann Georg Hamann (2007). “Writings on Philosophy and Language”

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• The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.

  William Cameron Townsend

  Mother, Christian Inspirational, Missionary

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• I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.

  Shreya Ghoshal

  Mother, Tongue, Language

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• I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.

  Charles William Eliot

  Education, Mother, Gentleman

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• Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for.

  Jacques Barzun

  Mother, Simple, Tongue

  Jacques Barzun (1954). “Teacher in America”

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• Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages

  Dave Barry

  Travel, Inspirational Life, Learning

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.259, Ballantine Books

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