Tongue
For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.
There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.
Mothers have always held such symbolic weight in determining a person's worth. Your mother tongue, your motherland, your mother's values — these things can qualify or disqualify you from attaining myriad American dreams: love, fluency, citizenship, legitimacy, acceptance, success, freedom.
I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
Give thy thoughts no tongue.
I will speak with a straight tongue.
I just stick my tongue out because I hate smiling in pictures. It's so awkward. It looks so cheesy.
Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
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.
It seems odd to think of tasting without any perceptive experience, but you are doing it right now. Humans have taste receptor cells in the gut, the voice box, the upper esophagus. But only the tongue's receptors report to the brain.
The pen is the tongue of the mind.