Quotes of: Mother-tongue Keyword

The power of life and death lies in the use of the tongue. Be careful of your words.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.

Maimonides

Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody.

Richard Petty

This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.

Emily Murphy

The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life.

Aly Khan

I'm not a xenophobe - I think immigration is a good thing for most countries - but they transmute the foibles of their native tongues into English in a way that's difficult to figure out.

Conrad Black

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

Alice Miller

...causing her eyes to bulge and her tongue to flick from behind her luscious lips, scaring away insects." — Amok 2015

Fred Barnett

I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong. Your tongue moves, and the Arabic language is so beautiful.

Hakeem Olajuwon

Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: ‘Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue’.

Idries Shah

You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.

Bela Lugosi

Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride, bridles the tongue.

George Horne

I can flip my tongue over. Only one in 10,000 people can. I learned that at Ripley's Believe It or Not!

Gabourey Sidibe

There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.

Joe Namath

Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy.

John Rhys-Davies

I play disturbed people a lot, but always with a bit of distance or tongue-in-cheek. Most of the villains I play are essentially harmless.

Christopher Walken

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

Sallust

Usually when people see me, they see me as more of the soft-spoken one rather than being the witty, smart-tongued character.

Amy Acker

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

Ambrose Bierce

if only our tongues were made of glass how much more careful we would be when we speak

Love

Here comes a pair of very strange beast, which in all tongues are called "fools".

Life