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That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions. -- Chow Yun-Fat
That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions -- Chow Yun-Fat
I think it's important to be sincere. And I could be the most sincere just staying in [my] mother language actually. And that's the reason why I stay composing and writing in French. -- Stromae
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. -- Karl Kraus
Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization. -- Orson F. Whitney
I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor. -- Max von Sydow
I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language. -- Shreya Ghoshal
My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages. -- Marjane Satrapi
As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation. -- Franz Liszt
The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity. -- Amin Maalouf
I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother is Hispanic. But English was my second language, believe it or not. -- George Zimmerman
I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking Portuguese. I wish that I spoke more languages than I do. -- Sebastian Arcelus
I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. -- Michelle Hunziker
To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension. -- Rachel Cusk
It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country. -- Mary Wesley
My first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house. -- Daniel Bruhl
Well, my first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house. -- Daniel Bruhl
Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language... it is quite demanding because if it is not your mother tongue, you are missing some connotations and some emotional depth of certain things. -- Tom Wlaschiha
My mother always spoke to me in English, so it's technically my maternal language, and it became a kind of private language - I was happy that I could speak in English to my mum and the majority of people wouldn't understand it. -- Lou Doillon
One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer. -- Caroline Kennedy
Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life. -- Bryn Terfel
I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me. -- Arthur Golden
Don't worry about what your mother thinks of your language. -- Elmore Leonard
Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It's the language of the soul. -- Gabrielle Roth
Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. -- John Brown
No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak. -- George W. Bush
I learned to use language like my mother did. I would simulcast, give you the program in your own tongue. -- Trevor Noah
Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before. -- W. H. Auden
I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor -- Max von Sydow
Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb. -- Italo Calvino
Heard about the young deaf boy who used sign language-One day he told his mother a dirty joke and she washed his hands out with soap -- Red Skelton
My grandfather, mother and father were gifted verbally, and my mother passed that along to me. She always made sure I was conscious of language and words. -- George Carlin
In humans, the family prevents infanticide. Next to language, the core family, consisting of a mother, a father and children, is the greatest difference between us and other primates. -- Frans de Waal
How often a mother initiates a conversation with her child is not predictive of the language outcomes - what matters is, if the infant initiates, whether the mom responds. -- Po Bronson
[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English. -- Mother Teresa

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