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.

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I think in my mother tongue. That's Hindi.

— Anupam Kher

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Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue. A mother in Manchuria could converse with a mother in Nebraska and never miss a word.

— Will Rogers

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Having portrayed English-speaking Indian characters in British and American projects, I have always wanted to use my mother tongue in an Indian film.

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We always said if we were going to target a millennial consumer, then we had to do it in their mother tongue, which is digital.

— Angela Ahrendts

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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

— Spanish Proverb

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