Mother Language Day

Famous quotes containing the words mother, language and/or day:

    “1946: I go to graduate school at Tulane in order to get distance from a “possessive” mother. I see a lot of a red-haired girl named Maude-Ellen. My mother asks one day: “Does Maude-Ellen have warts? Every girl I’ve known named Maude-Ellen has had warts.” Right: Maude-Ellen had warts.”
    —Bill Bouke (20th century)

    “One who speaks a foreign language just a little takes more pleasure in it than one who speaks it well. Enjoyment belongs to those who know things halfway.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “O Sword,
    you are the younger brother, the latter-born,
    your Triumph, however exultant,
    must one day be over,
    in the beginning
    was the Word.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)