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“Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life.”

Ifs Needs Children Mother Speak Language Community Work Out Tongue Locals My Children Beneficial Pubs Cafes Welsh Mother Tongue

Author:Bryn Terfel

“Letters to the editors of English and American newspapers often contain expressions of horror about the new terms that creep into the language, and these expressions are usually accompanied by dire predictions about ruination of the mother tongue.”

Mother Language Term Expression Horror Letters Tongue Newspapers Editors Predictions Creeps Mother Tongue

Book:Word Play: What Happens When People Talk

Source: Word Play: What Happens When People Talk

“I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered with brushes, pots, tubes, bowls, staring into space and sticking out their tongues like the clever animals that ring a bell, tongues lolling and eyes vague. Teachers supervise these young creators of abstract art and slap their wrists if what they paint represents something and dangerously inclines toward realism. The mothers - still at the Picasso stage - are not admitted.”

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

Wells Mother Universe Tongue Syllables Mother Tongue

Author:Tahar Ben Jelloun

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

Children Mother Education Higher Our Children Tongue Educated Your Children Branches Mother Tongue

Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also helpless in two or three other languages.”

People Two Form Mother Three Language Privilege Tongue Helpless Foreign Language Mother Tongue

Book:Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel

Source: Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel

“When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.”

Young Mother Father Sleep Cry Died Tongue Chimneys Mother Tongue Mother Died

Author:William Blake

“The mother tongue is propaganda.”

Mother Tongue Propaganda Mother Tongue

Book:Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication

Source: Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication

“Give heed to the cause of the holy Roman Church, mother of all churches and teacher of the faith, whom you by the order of God, have consecrated by your blood. Against the Roman Church, you warned, lying teachers are rising, introducing ruinous sects, and drawing upon themselves speedy doom. Their tongues are fire, a restless evil, full of deadly poison. They have bitter zeal, contention in their hearts, and boast and lie against the truth.”

Giving Heart Lying Mother Order Evil Causes Church Fire Teacher Blood Holy Tongue Drawing Bitter Poison Rising Introducing Boast Restless Doom Zeal Heed Sects Contention

Author:Pope Leo X

“I know I am made from this earth, as my mother's hands were made from this earth, as her dreams came from this earth and all that I know, I know in this earth, the body of the bird, this pen, this paper, these hands, this tongue speaking, all that I know speaks to me through this earth.”

Knows Made Dream Body Hands Earth Mother Speak Paper Bird Tongue Pens

Book:Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her

Source: Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her

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

Mother Language Tongue Indian Hindi Bengali Mother Tongue

Author:Shreya Ghoshal

“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.”

Facts Christian Mother Language Identity Holy Islam Tongue Paradox Mother Tongue

Book:In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong

Source: In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong

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

People Used Mother South Rap Tongue Village Sudan Mother Tongue

Author:Emmanuel Jal

“People over the age of thirty were born before the digital revolution really started. We've learned to use digital technology-laptops, cameras, personal digital assistants, the Internet-as adults, and it has been something like learning a foreign language. Most of us are okay, and some are even expert. We do e-mails and PowerPoint, surf the Internet, and feel we're at the cutting edge. But compared to most people under thirty and certainly under twenty, we are fumbling amateurs. People of that age were born after the digital revolution began. They learned to speak digital as a mother tongue.”