Main Home Language

Famous quotes containing the words main, home and/or language:

    Observe this, that tho’ a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she’s still virtuous; that’s a maxim.
    George Farquhar (1678–1707)

    Jen: All the other boys fall over themselves and never even get to first base.
    Cory: Did you ever think, Jen, that I might not want to get to first base?
    Jen: Of course not. You’re out to make a home run.
    Blake Edwards (b. 1922)

    And what the dead had no speech for, when living,
    They can tell you, being dead: the communication
    Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)