Findings Quote by Brian P. Cleary

You see failed vocabulary in the adult world so often, and it's often because once you reach a certain age you're kind of embarrassed…

— Daniel Handler

Many people must have noticed the intense attention given by children to the conversation of grown-ups when they cannot possibly be understanding a word…

— Maria Montessori

At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.

— William Safire

Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a…

— E. B. White

Words are just words that spit out of a persons mouth unless they give them definition by showing actions that give the same meaning.

— Megan

We think people go to a dictionary to find out what a word means. Most people go to the dictionary because they don't want…

— Erin McKean

Anyway, once children get to talk, they seem to be finding ways to joke.

— Michael Rosen

When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, and we just think they do.

— Neil Gaiman

With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.

— Andrew Solomon

“Why do humans use words that don’t mean what they actually mean?”

— Arabella Sveinsdottir

Most people understand that the more words children are exposed to, the stronger their vocabularies will be. But fewer people are aware that the…

— Dorothy Bush Koch

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

— Agatha Christie