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Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit. -- Jeremy Taylor
When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth. -- Andy Serkis
We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth. -- John Lyly
Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free. -- Anna Akhmatova
For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can. -- Kailash Kher
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. -- Voltaire
O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics. -- Quintus Ennius
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. -- William Shakespeare
I believe in a tongue-first exploration of the world. Food is our most immediate daily relationship to our ecosystem, and there is something delectable and intriguing about it. -- Natalie Jeremijenko
There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever was not exactly a brand new idea. -- Peter Noone
It's a fine line we walk on 'Warehouse 13.' We really earn our dramatic moments, but our tongues are always firmly in our cheeks. If we take ourselves too seriously, we get into trouble. -- Joanne Kelly
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
One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear. -- Marilyn French
Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it. The problem is, our brains have always been terrible at remembering details. They were like that way before the Internet came along. -- Clive Thompson
The laity ought to understand the faith, and since the doctrines of our faith are in the Scriptures, believers should have the Scriptures in a language familiar to the people, and to this end the Holy Ghost endued them with knowledge of all tongues. -- John Wycliffe
Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts. -- Sam Harris
I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of every citizen's tongue. -- Karen DeCrow
We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, 'Don't worry about winning': If you win I'll get you ice cream, but if you lose I'm going to pout in the car. -- Bode Miller
We are Jesus Christ's; we belong to him. But even more, we are increasingly him. He moves in and commandeers our hands and feet, requisitions our minds and tongues. We sense his rearranging: debris into the divine, pig's ear into silk purse. He repurposes bad decisions and squalid choices. Little by little, a new image emerges. -- Max Lucado
We shall no more see our kind friends around us, or enjoy the conveniences of civilized life, or go to the house of God with those that keep holy day; but swarthy countenances will everywhere meet our eye, the jargon of an unknown tongue will assail our ears, and we shall witness the assembling of the heathen to celebrate the worship of idol gods. -- Adoniram Judson
Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It's the language of the soul. -- Gabrielle Roth
We're one race. No matter our religion, beliefs, mother tongue, or skin color. -- Claudia Black
They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak. -- George W. Bush
When we drink coffee, our tongue gets painted. As long as it stays painted, it remains tasty! -- Ernesto Illy
Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe. -- Anne Rice
I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff. -- Jeff Lindsay
Old England is our home, and Englishmen are we; Our tongue is known in every clime, our flag in every sea. -- Mary Howitt
Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time. -- Saint John Chrysostom
Which of us, then, does not offend frequently with our tongue? The real problem, however, is not our tongues but our hearts. -- Jerry Bridges
Fortunately, war in Latin America is usually waged only with words. The tongue is our most dangerous weapon. We talk too much! -- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain. -- Dante Alighieri
How sad they are, the promises we never return to. They stay in our mouths, roughen the tongue, lead lives of their own. -- Jane Hirshfield
"Our prosperity, our friends, our bondage and even our destruction are all in the end rooted in our tongue," says a famous adage. -- Krishnananda Saraswati
Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness. -- David Abram
We've both got a million bad habits to kick, not sleeping is one. We're biting our nails, you're biting my lip, I'm biting my tongue. -- Lorde
We are given two of most of our body parts, either opposites or similarities, but not the tongue; except for my wife's which is forked. -- Kyle Bradley
We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over. -- Brigid Brophy
With my tongue in one cheek only, I'd suggest that were our palaeolithic ancestors to discover the peer-review dredger, we would be still sitting in caves. -- Zygmunt Bauman
How did Jefferson feel about the people of his day who were the equivalent of our modern day penecostals? You know, those revelation reveling tongue speaking idiots... -- Thomas Jefferson
The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces! -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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