Children Quote by Anonymous

Mothers remember a child's first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“Mum said no one has ever called me by my first name so I've always assumed that even as a baby they could tell…

— Rosamund Lupton

It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest,…

— Alan Bradley

[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow.

— Margot Asquith

She was developing what Mom called a bit of a sarcastic streak.

— Jeannette Walls

Kids used to tease me and call me 'fille des etoiles,' which translates to 'daughter of the stars.'

— Khoudia Diop

But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure!

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

People used to call her Debbie Reynolds' daughter. Now they call me Princess Leia's mother!

— Debbie Reynolds

Jean Harlow [Hollywood's sexy actress] kept calling Margot Asquith by her first name, or kept trying to: she pronounced it Margot. Finally Margot set…

— Margot Asquith

“Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That made me wonder what she…

— Nancy E. Turner

“What do you think was the first sound to become a word, a meaning?... I imagined two people without words, unable to speak to…

— Amy Tan

She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.

— Ann Brashares