Quotes of: Mother-tongue Keyword

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Diogenes

Rooster Cogburn: I'd give $3 now for a pickled buffalo tongue.

True Grit

Magneto: Toad has a wicked tongue, Senator. Just like you.

X-Men

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

Benjamin Franklin

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.

Marianne Williamson

Lady Lyndon: Lord Bullingdon, have you lost your tongue?

Barry Lyndon

I never show the back of my tongue. That is a Dutch expression.

Ben van Berkel

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

Tennessee Williams

A second on the tongue is a lifetime in the heart. What you say can be forgiven, but never forgotten.

Life

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

Voltaire

I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

Walt Whitman

Look first at the mother and then the daughter.

Romanian

Beauty is the sister of idleness and the mother of luxury.

Russian

There are many fathers, but only one mother.

Russian

To drunken mothers-in-law give full jugs.

Spanish

A beetle is a beauty in the eyes of his mother.

Traditional

The best mother is the mother who adapts, and the best children are the children who adapt as well.

Juliette Binoche

I was raised by a single mother.

Josh Peck

One of the things I enjoy is the challenge of Mother Nature.

Nik Wallenda

Sadie heard her inside cleaning up the kitchen and wondered what dreams Betty's mother had for herself, if all mothers had them, bottled up beneath their mother exteriors.

The Longings of Wayward Girls

Ah, how quickly the hands on the clock circle toward the future we thought was far away! And how soon we become our mothers.

Somewhere in Heaven My Mother Is Smiling