Tongues Quotes

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

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.

The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.

We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth.

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues.

Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak; they hear and see, and sigh, and then they break.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.

At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.

In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it.

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.

When we were making Speaking in Tongues and Remain in Light, we were jamming. From that we were taking the best bits and then recording and improvising on top of those.

When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

The eyes those silent tongues of love.

The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.

I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues.

As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased.

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.