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“German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties; I see you more clearly, the movements of your body, your hands, so quick, so resolute, it’s almost like a meeting.”

Body Hands Mother Natural Movement Letters Meetings Tongue Your Body Uncertainty Remove Affectionate Resolute Mother Tongue Czech

Book:Letters to Milena

Source: Letters to Milena

“The hardest thing is being with other people — it's like they're on a different wavelength, but only you know it. They talk about their lives and what's wrong with them, and you kind of, like, just let them go. It's a whole different language, and you've got to remember that you can only respond in their mother tongue. It's really hard to relate.”

People Knows Kind Different Hard Whole Remember Mother Language Tongue Hardest Relate Hardest Thing Different Languages Mother Tongue

Author:J.R. Ward

“Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.”

Humans Mother Poetry Race Tongue Human Race Poetry Is Mother Tongue

Book:Writings on Philosophy and Language

Source: Writings on Philosophy and Language

“Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages”

Source: Dave Barry's Greatest Hits

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

Soul Spiritual Mother Language Wise Universal Tongue Rhythm Mother Tongue

Author:Gabrielle Roth

“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.”

Use Mother Education Tongue Motherhood Gentleman Accurate Acquisition Refined Mother Tongue

Author:Charles William Eliot

“I'm at the age when my friends have started having kids, and when my first good friend had a baby, the first time I picked up her daughter I spoke in French. I didn't even think about it. It just came out. Maybe it's because it's my mother tongue?”

Thinking Firsts Kids Age Mother Baby Daughter My Friends First Time Tongue Spokes Good Friend Having Kids Mother Tongue

Author:Jessica Pare

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

Needs Mother Christianity Missions Tongue Christian Inspirational Missionary Foreigners Great Missionary Mother Tongue Christian Missionary Inspirational Missionary Missionary Life

Author:William Cameron Townsend

“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.”

Mother Tongue Chess Mother Tongue Capablanca

Author:Richard Reti

“Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Prose and Verse: Complete in One Volume

“I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.”

Lost Language Nations Communication Losing Sorry Tongue English Language Language Learning Mother Tongue Pedigree Learning Language Language And Communication Culture And Language Language Culture

Author:Samuel Johnson

“What is a nation without a mother tongue?”

Mother Language Nations Tongue Mother Tongue Language Acquisition

Author:Jack Edwards

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

Thinking Important Mother Courses Actors Language Rich Musical Tongue Fantastic Mother Tongue

Author:Max von Sydow

“Evangelicalism is like my religious mother tongue. I revert to it whenever I’m angry or excited or surrounded by other people who understand what I’m saying. And it’s the language in which I most often hear God’s voice on the rare occasion that it rises above the noise.”

People Mother Language Voice Religious Angry Excited Tongue Noise Occasions Rise Above Mother Tongue Rare Occasion

Book:A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'Master'

Source: A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'Master'

“A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother tongue are to ordinary people, or notes or scores to musicians.”

People Needs Mother Games Musician Ordinary Notes Tongue Score Ordinary People Mother Tongue

Author:Garry Kasparov

“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”

Ifs World Way Made Mother Language Natural Clear Saws Pure Shapes Percent My Friends Direct Tongue Observation Chinese Vivid Imagery Mother Tongue Perfectly Natural

Author:Amy Tan

“Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.”

Thinking Art Mother Language Cities Art Is Tongue Familiar Deceiving Mother Tongue

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously. That shapes our perceptions for life. That is propaganda at its most extreme form.”

World Children Form Mother Shapes Perception Extremes Tongue Propaganda Mother Tongue

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“Every call to worship is a call into the Real World.... I encounter such constant and widespread lying about reality each day and meet with such skilled and systematic distortion of the truth that I'm always in danger of losing my grip on reality. The reality, of course, is that God is sovereign and Christ is savior. The reality is that prayer is my mother tongue and the eucharist my basic food. The reality is that baptism, not Myers-Briggs, defines who I am.”

“An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one's mother tongue should be typical of that art. The sense of reality should be strengthened from the beginning, yet by no means at the cost of those lofty illusions we call patriotism, veneration, love.”

Should Mean Art Use Reality Mother Childhood Expression Cost Illusion Tongue Typical Lofty Veneration Mother Tongue

Book:The Public Papers

Source: The Public Papers

“Musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed. Any child who is properly trained can develop musical ability just as all children develop the ability to speak their mother tongue. The potential of every child is unlimited.”

“Silence is become his mother tongue.”

Mother Silence Tongue Silence Is Mother Tongue

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“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.”

People Mother Musician Ordinary Notes Tongue Chess Ordinary People Mother Tongue

Author:Garry Kasparov

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

Body Mother Language Tongue Symptoms Foreign Language Mother Tongue

Author:John Brown

“After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply because through this extraordinary, ancient and powerful language it is possible to precisely describe the tiniest differences and the most secretive tremors of emotions.”

Years Has Beens I Can Mother Language Differences Powerful Emotion Study Extraordinary Ancient Tongue Secretive Mother Tongue Hungarians

Author:George Bernard Shaw

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

Thinking Mother Emotion Magic Tongue Mother Tongue

Author:Kailash Kher

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