Children Quote by Deborah A. Beasley

“Cognitive and social learning cannot break through to a child whose world is intrusively loud, blindingly bright, unbearably malodorous and physically complicated to navigate.”

— Ellen Notbohm

“When you're a child, what you see and hear and comprehend can be sorted into little boxes. Then, as you live and learn, all…

— Vikki Wakefield

“How can children bombarded from birth by noise, frenetic schedules, and the helter-skelter caretaking of a fast-paced adult world learn to analyze, reflect, ponder?…

— Jane M. Healy

“Children who observe an adult intentionally manipulating an object have a strong tendency to encode all of the adult's actions as meaningful.”

— David DiSalvo

“Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn’t developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don’t…

— Douglas Adams

“Children may not understand all that's happening below the surface of a story. It doesn't matter. Because even though they may not be able…

— Lloyd Alexander

“It is almost impossible for a parent to hold a secret from a child. Children, without the skills of language, spend years developing instead…

— Cynthia Rylant

A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea; most people, after they are about eleven or twelve, quite…

— Olive Schreiner

“Our visuals must represent the truth and decode the verbal jumble so these children can find the right direction.”

— Adele Devine

Once we begin to appreciate that the apparent destructiveness of the toddler in taking apart a flower or knocking down sand castles is in…

— Polly Berrien Berends

No one tells a child how to see, especially in the early years. They learn this through real-world experiences and examples.

— Fei-Fei Li

“A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave. It sniffs - it sucks - it strokes…

— Peter Shaffer