Welcome to Tongues Quotes, where the power of language and expression is celebrated through insightful and inspiring quotes. Language, in its myriad forms, serves as a vessel for human thought, emotion, and connection, transcending boundaries and enriching our understanding of the world. From the lyrical prose of poets to the poignant musings of philosophers, the use of language, both spoken and written, has shaped civilizations and touched the hearts and minds of individuals throughout history.
In this collection, we delve into the beauty and depth of tongues, exploring the diverse ways in which words can captivate, motivate, and illuminate. Whether it’s the eloquence of a well-crafted phrase, the resonance of a heartfelt declaration, or the wit of a clever turn of phrase, each quote offers a glimpse into the power and potential of language to inspire, provoke, and empower. Join us on a journey through the rich tapestry of human expression as we uncover the wisdom and wonder encapsulated in these timeless words.
Below, you’ll find a curated selection of quotes on the topic of tongues. Feel free to explore, reflect, and engage with these quotes as you see fit. Whether you choose to copy them, pair them with images, or stylize them with your own creative flair, may they serve as a source of inspiration and enrichment in your own linguistic journey.
No relationship is perfect and people who say they don’t argue are either liars or biting their tongues all the time. Kym Marsh
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
Editorial pages all say, ‘Well, the other guy has a point, too. It remains to be seen how this will come out. We certainly hope it comes out fine; blah, blah.’ Cartoonists don’t go that way. Our job is to stick out our tongues, to show a big raspberry to whatever pompous jerk happens to be mouthing off. Jeff MacNelly
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. Arthur Keith
It is my great good luck the words I use are English words, which means I live in a very old nation of open borders; a rich, deep, multi-layered, promiscuous universe, infused with Latin, German, French, Greek, Arabic and countless other tongues. Geraldine Brooks
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. Ambrose Bierce
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. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
I am living and having supernatural experiences. A lot of people get really freaked out about that. I speak in tongues; I’ve been baptized in the Holy Spirit. Stephen Baldwin
We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth. John Lyly
I am appalled to hear the defence of the niqab or burka in Europe. A bizarre political correctness has tied the tongues of those who would normally rally to defend women’s rights but who are now instead sacrificing those very rights in the name of fighting an increasingly powerful right wing. Mona Eltahawy
You can’t live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles that we have in our mouths and faces and tongues. Lake Bell
In reality, speaking in tongues is an acquired skill. At the time, I thought I was undergoing a spiritual experience. You feel good when you do it. Michael O’Keefe
Giraffes are fairytale animals, almost heraldic – as if from the land of fables. They have extremely beautiful faces, huge eyes, very sensitive nostrils and oh, blue tongues! Joanna Lumley
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. Aly Khan
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. Washington Irving
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. Gabriela Mistral
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
The eyes those silent tongues of love. Miguel de Cervantes
There is not one New York but thousands – mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues. Karan Mahajan
The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal and grammatical speech which constitutes the various tongues of the Earth, and conceals the identity of image and logic in the minds of all men. George Edward Woodberry
I was in church every Sunday till I was 14 or 15. A van used to come and get us, whether we wanted to go or not. I saw people getting the spirit, talking in tongues, juddering, foaming at the mouth – to be honest, I was a bit frightened of it. The minute I could, I stopped going. Lenny Henry
In Hollywood today, it’s cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don’t get it. Scott Caan
I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily. Aravind Adiga
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. George Pierce Baker
We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like this table and this microphone and so on, but we actually create that in our heads out of the bits of information that hit the back of our eyeballs or hit our eardrums or hit our tongues or whatever. Douglas Adams
The myth that people with epilepsy swallow their tongues is very injurious. When I had seizures without my roommates present, I would often wake up with my gums bleeding, my teeth hurting or my jaw aching. Often, well-intentioned people, believing I would choke on my tongue, tried to force open my clenched jaw to put in a hard object. Kurt Eichenwald
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. Robert Fulghum
There are more than thousand mother tongues spoken in our country. This is not just a number but a reason to be proud of. Smriti Irani
I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road… all tongues and all prayers belong to me. But I belong to none of them. Amin Maalouf
We’re talking about being relevant again. I want the Sixers to be on people’s tongues again… I want the Sixers to be the basketball team that people want to see. Doug Collins
Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither – these make the finest company in the world. Logan Pearsall Smith
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
I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language. George Steiner
I was raised in a little church, the Grundy Methodist Church, that was very straight-laced, but I had a friend whose mother spoke in tongues. I was just wild for this family. My own parents were older, and they were so over-protective. I just loved the ‘letting go’ that would happen when I went to church with my friend. Lee Smith
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words. Baruch Spinoza
My mother was apt to fall out on the floor and start speaking in tongues. Actually, it was a great performance… It was great theater. As a 5-year-old, I understood that, although it scared me and there was a little part of me going, ‘I don’t know about this. This seems over-the-top to me,’ at the same time, I did understand that this was passion. Rodney Crowell
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. Tina Weymouth
So, is Hollywood anti-religion? Not in my opinion. But unlike, say, politicians and preachers who talk faith before going off to speak in tongues to their mistresses, Hollywood just doesn’t wear its faith on its sleeve. John Ridley
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. George Whitefield
There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues. George Dennison Prentice
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues. Rumi
We Houstonians are a spicy lot. We raise our babies with tongues of fire, mostly lit by chips and salsa. Our blood is as thick and warm as queso. Beth Moore
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. John Burns
Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children’s children, pure on their tongues, and free. Anna Akhmatova
I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues. Clayton M. Christensen
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. Umberto Eco
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
When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth. Andy Serkis
A common language doesn’t soothe dry tongues and thirsty throats. Sanjaya Baru
For millions of Americans, climate change is no longer just a chart or a graph. It’s the smoke on our tongues from massive wildfires. It’s the floodwater invading our homes and record-breaking hurricanes and heat waves. Jay Inslee
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
Our brains are way, way more complex than any computer we know how to make. They’re way more creative. The input’s pretty good, but the output is constrained by our tongues and jaws moving and us typing. Mary Lou Jepsen
I have learned to interface – what I think would be the contemporary term – with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I’ve learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure. Bono
It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues. Jean de la Bruyere
I don’t know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on. Betty White
True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak; they hear and see, and sigh, and then they break. Edward Dyer
You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage. Martin H. Fischer
I’m not a xenophobe – I think immigration is a good thing for most countries – but they transmute the foibles of their native tongues into English in a way that’s difficult to figure out. Conrad Black
