Quotes of: Mother-tongue Keyword

In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities.

In Conversation

If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song.

The Collected Poems

If your blade were as sharp as your tongue, you'd have sliced me through years ago.

The Daisy Chain

If your blade were as sharp as your tongue, you'd have sliced my through years ago.

The Daisy Chain

I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.

Darkly Dreaming Dexter

A bitter man needs to place his troubles on the front of his tongue so that they taste sweeter.

Dubious Musings of a Peculiar Man

In this walk to freedom, we must, without question obtain hearts of honesty and a tongue of truthfulness.

Excerpts To Exodus

Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues." [Stage direction, ]

Henry IV, Part 2

Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.

All's Well That Ends Well

You would do well to guard your tongue, lest it be stricken from you.

Bleeds My Desire

A brick could be licked, like a cat’s asshole. But obviously inversed, because your tongue is soft and the brick is rough. 

Brick

Yeah, it's a kodak moment. Quick, take a picture. Sarah scoffs. I stick my tongue out at her.

Back To You

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.

Horace Walpole

Cats have tongues with the texture of bricks, and fur as warm and soft as blankets.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.

Yelawolf

The moonlight caught the glint of his lip ring, which he was now fondling with the tip of his tongue as he stared down at me. It was a bit awkward.

Ink

Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.

Killosophy

I go silent so I can write. When my tongue is wagging my fingers are silent.

Simple Conversation

Anne tried to bite her tongue, but she was finding her mouth bloody too often.

St. Anne's Day

Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.

My First Summer in the Sierra

Is that all you've got? A few tricks and quick feet? That's no way to enforce your bold tongue!

Six Celestial Swords