Quotes of: Mother-tongue Keyword

Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for ...

Sam Harris

Lord Chafee: My tongue is hanging out to present it on the London stage. David Shayne: London. Lord Chafee: Look at his face, Helen. You're going to be the toast of Broadway. Why not the West End, hmm?

Bullets Over Broadway

Hedley Lamarr: My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives. Taggart: God darnit, Mr. Lamarr, you use your tongue prettier than a twenty dollar whore.

Blazing Saddles

I am firmly of the opinion that people who can’t speak have nothing to say. It’s one more thing we do to the poor, the deprived: cut out their tongues … allow them a language as lousy as their life

William H. Gass

It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her.

Cannibales

Mother Earth allows us to live and to walk on her surface, not the other way around.

Dragonflame: Tap Into Your Reservoir of Power Using Talismans, Manifestation, and Visualization

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything." ( , Nov. 9, 1768)

Early and Miscellaneous Letters of J. W. Goethe: Including Letters to His Mother. With Notes and a Short Biography

What do we know of our mothers? I thought I knew her. But I'd seen her as a child sees a good mother--pure, transparent, incapable of deception.

The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope

One can memorize all words written about Christ but without a heart connection to Him, one does not know Him, and they will not be saved by Him.

Glory Came in Amber Rays: A Mother's Spiritual Journey Into the Heavenlies

If I would be made come to earth again, I would ask for the same mother again. If made to return 100 times to earth, I would request to be born through the same mother 100 times!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

My mother is my teacher Her words make me richer I thank you oh my mother May you grow and live longer!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Down through the centuries, the Church has carefully preserved, protected, and defended its Marian teachings, because to give them up would be to give up the gospel.

Hail, Holy Queen: The Mother of God in the Word of God

Maggie had learned a long time ago that each day with a child was filled with two kinds of battles: those that won the war, and those that did not.

Bad Mom Rents a Man: Mother's Day

...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horr...

The Brothers Karamazov

Look at me. We aren´t them lauren. You´re not your mother or father any more than I´m my mother. You´re you and I´m me and I love you.

Bloom

When I was eight, nine years of age, my mother bought me a pair of green trousers - corduroy green trousers. I didn't like green, and I basically buried them underground. And my mother kept asking me, 'Where are your trousers?' I said, 'Oh, I don't k...

Brunello Cucinelli

Listen with your heart, not your brain. the heart only knows TRUTH!

I Will See You Again: A Mother's Story and Sacred Journey After Finding Her Son's Lifeless Body

It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all.

Route 66 Backroads: Your Guide to Scenic Side Trips & Adventures from the Mother Road

For a long time, I was trapped in this struggle with my emotions about the single person in the world who was my family.

Sidonia's Thread: The Secrets of a Mother and Daughter Sewing a New Life in America

oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- and the beast your life nowhere hiding (p. 103)

The Still Position: A Verse Memoir of My Mother's Death

My mother is the antithesis of a typical Jewish mother, she is very soft-spoken and takes more naps that a cat. As a result, I've always longed for someone to really annoy the shit out of me.

My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands