Tongues

Famous quotes containing the word tongues:

“People’s tongues are like grass, moving this way and that according to the direction of the winds.”
—Chinese proverb.

“There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

“The air split into nine levels,
Some gift of tongues of the whistler”
—James Dickey (b. 1923)