Quotes About Mother Tongues

#1. She has always been somehow weightless, free of the heavy burden of mother tongues, national histories, native soils, homelands, fatherlands, myths, that many of the people around her tote on their backs like a sack of red-hot stones.

Dasa Drndic

#2. Everything is the director's fault - you can quote me on that. There are no excuses.

Steven Soderbergh

#3. Castiza: "False! I defy you both!
I have endured you with an ear of fire;
Your tongues have struck hot irons on my face!
Mother, come from that poisonous woman there."
Gratiana: "Where?"
Castiza: "Do you not see her? She's too inward then.

Thomas Middleton

#4. Upon your shattered ruins where
This vine will flourish still, as rare,
As fresh, as fragrant as of old.
Love will not crumble.

Eleanor Farjeon

#5. God in His infinite wisdom blessed humans with redundant tongues: one to outfit the mouth for speech. And a mother tongue to give it meaning ... Though it wags out such inconceivable beauty, attached to the mother tongue lies one much maligned woman.

David B. Lentz

#6. The scented cloud permeates the air and coats our tongues, triggering images: licorice tobacco and a seductive fae with an agenda, ocean salt and a mortal boy's sweat, maple syrup and a father's love, a mother's sacrifice and a lunar garden rich with lilies and honeysuckle.

A.G. Howard

#7. No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Peace Pilgrim

#8. Even the state TV channels are not monolithic in their pro-government line, and the views they express are quite pluralistic.

Sergei Lavrov

#9. it's no mystery that all cells here on earth should be chemiosmotic. I would expect that cells across the universe will be chemiosmotic too.

Nick Lane

#10. It's not like I ride a broom into interviews. I don't hang upside down with a cape on.

Trent Reznor

#11. 8Owe nothing to anyone - except for your obligation to love one another. If

Anonymous

#12. Storytelling is shaped by two contrary, yet complementary, impulses - one toward brevity, compactness, artful omission; the other toward expansion, amplification, enrichment.

Joyce Carol Oates

#13. anybody who has spent two months training a goshawk, knowing that it will be fatal even to give the creature even a cross look,' the man says, 'it seems very extraordinary that the complex psychology of a human being can be taught with a stick.' Sitting

Helen Macdonald

#14. Well, it's nowhere near as good as it could be, but I suppose it's as good as I can make it right now.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#15. Let it [racism] be a problem to someone else ... Let it drag them down. Don't use it as an excuse for your own shortcomings.

Colin Powell

#16. We don't want him, we want you.-- Cooper Hawkes.

This isn't a dating service. We're in the middle of a war. If we stop following orders, there will be no order. It'll all fall apart.- T.C. McQueen

James Morrison