Chinese Mother Tongue

Famous quotes containing the words mother and/or tongue:

    “Miracle had its playtime where
    In damask clothed and on a seat
    Chryselephantine, cedar-boarded,
    His majestic Mother sat
    Stitching at a purple hoarded
    That He might be nobly breeched....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
    And every tongue brings in a several tale,
    And every tale condemns me for a villain.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)