Native Tongue Quotes (6 quotes)

“She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he'd never studied. Maybe it would be like this, now, for Josie. Maybe her native tongue, from here on in, would be a string of lies.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

tags: language, lies, mouth, native-tongue, remembered, speak, string

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“In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to fuck.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: acquaint, acquaintance, argot, bed, cant, chase, choice-of-words, communication, conversation, court, courting, courtship, date, dialect, discourse, dysphemism, dysphemisms, euphemism, euphemisms, expressions, form-of-expression, fuck, go-out-with, go-steady-with, idiolect, idiom, jargon, know, language, lingo, locutions, make-acquaintance, make-love, mode-of-expression, mother-tongue, native-tongue, parlance, patois, phraseology, phrasing, pursue, relationship, relationships, romance, run-after, see, seek-the-hand, set-one-s-cap-for, sexual-intercourse, slang, sleep-with, speaking, speech, style, talk, talking, terminology, tongue, turns-of-phrase, usages, vocabulary, woe, woo, wording, words, writing

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“Back in New York I took full advantage of my status as a native speaker. I ran my mouth to shop clerks and listened in on private conversations, realising I’d gone an entire month without hearing anyone complaint that they were “stressed out”.”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

tags: french, language, native-tongue

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“the voice taunted, and threatened:
"you are afraid, unhappy, dissatisfied, what if…."
but I knew, this was not His language for motivating my heart,
so I waited quietly to hear my Father's native tongue,
"I love, I am satisfied, I trust, this is the way..." - and I moved.”
― Kate Mullane Robertson

tags: direction, divine, god, guidance, language, listening, native-tongue, voice

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“A strong tie binds novelists to their mother tongue. Though novelists can and do write in languages other than their own, there is a common belief that a novel has a special, almost mystical affinity with the novelist's mother tongue.”
― Minae Mizumura, The Fall of Language in the Age of English

tags: mother-tongue, native-tongue, particular-language

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“To lose your own language was like forgetting your mother, and as sad, in a way.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Full Cupboard of Life

tags: language, native-tongue

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