Top 1200 Mother Tongue Quotes & Sayings

Tamil is almost like my mother tongue and for quite some time, I had been concentrating on Telugu.

When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs. I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb's bleat.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.

My mother tongue is Telugu. I was born and brought up in Tamil Nadu.

Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue. A mother in Manchuria could converse with a mother in Nebraska and never miss a word.

When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.

Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for.

Hypocrisy is wretched because the hypocrite says with his tongue what is not in his heart. He wrongs his tongue and oppresses his heart. But if the heart is sound, the condition of the tongue follows suit. We are commanded to be upright in speech, which is a gauge of the heart's state.

If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.

I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor

I think in my mother tongue. That's Hindi.

I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.

To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.

The tongue never slips – remember this always. What goes on within the mind comes invariably on the tongue.

Being a Bengali, I have kept in touch with the cinema of my mother tongue.

Tollywood has a special place in my heart because Telugu is my mother tongue, and when I sing in the language, my mom feels really happy.

The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity.

I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.

My father's wit, and my mother's tongue, assist me!

Hindi is my mother tongue. Even though I do not get to use it as often, it's still a part of me.

During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did the Arabs, if we take this term to mean all those whose mother-tongue was Arabic, and not merely those living in the Arabian peninsula. For centuries, Arabic was the language of learning, culture and intellectual progress for the whole of the civilized world with the exception of the Far East. From the IXth to the XIIth century there were more philosophical, medical, historical, religiuos, astronomical and geographical works written in Arabic than in any other human tongue.

Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue.

Tamil is my mother tongue.

What is a nation without a mother tongue?

Once, a man at the customs duty check at the Delhi Airport asked me a question in Hindi, and I told him that I didn't speak the language. He got angry and said, 'How could you not speak in Hindi? Hindi is our mother tongue.' I told him that it wasn't my mother tongue. He got furious, and made me wait for over 45 minutes.

For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.

Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It's the language of the soul.

I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.

Mothers have always held such symbolic weight in determining a person's worth. Your mother tongue, your motherland, your mother's values - these things can qualify or disqualify you from attaining myriad American dreams: love, fluency, citizenship, legitimacy, acceptance, success, freedom.

We're one race. No matter our religion, beliefs, mother tongue, or skin color.

See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning.

The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.

I think it's really hard for me... to sing in English, because it's not my mother tongue.

I think that, when you play a mother, whether you play a bad mother or a not so great mother or an amazing mother, being a mother is already so complicated. It's already three-dimensional, automatically, no matter what the role is, because you're playing a mother.

Apart from English, I speak my mother tongue Malayalam, as well as Tamil, Telugu, and a bit of Kannada and French.

We always said if we were going to target a millennial consumer, then we had to do it in their mother tongue, which is digital.

Here's my advice to my brown friends: The next time you're on an airplane in the U.S., just speak your mother tongue. That way, no one knows what you're saying. Life goes on.

I learned to use language like my mother did. I would simulcast, give you the program in your own tongue.

I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.

Cat got your tongue? And what a lovely tongue it is. I know. It licked every inch of me. Repeatedly. For months," He purred but with steel in the velvet

Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to 90 percent. Some say they understand none of it, as if she were speaking pure Chinese. But to me, my mother's English is perfectly clear, perfectly natural. It's my mother tongue. Her language, as I hear it, is vivid, direct, full of observation and imagery. That was the language that helped shape the way I saw things, expressed things, made sense of the world

The rhythm of my body is the same as my mother tongue. It is in this rhythm where I find sanctity, that I can return to my mother who is everywhere in the universe.

My mother tongue is German.

The mother tongue is propaganda.

They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak.

It is France. I know the league well. It is my mother tongue. Inevitably, there is an attraction for me. A return? It might not be my first choice, but of course, it is not impossible.

A grandmaster must memorize thousands of chess duels in his head, as these are for him what words of the mother tongue are to the ordinary people and what notes are to a musician.

Marathi is my mother tongue; there's a certain comfort level speaking in it.

I am not really missing theatre as I get to act in films, that too in different languages, such as Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Marathi, my mother tongue.

I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor.

My mother tongue is Punjabi, but my first language is Urdu, which was the case with the people in undivided Punjab.

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.

Race is not the only differential in South Africa, in the new South Africa, where all schools are open, mother-tongue education is a very big issue. One of the main reasons why the dropout figure of black students, and the lower pass rate of black students in the present education system, and it was like that before, was that we didn't have mother-tongue education.

Silence is become his mother tongue.

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

I've mostly worked in Hindi and occasionally Gujarati, which is my mother tongue.

I am very comfortable doing Bengali films because it's my mother tongue, which enables me to emote well, and my home is there too.