Birth Quote by George Herbert

Teach a child good manners during babyhood.

— Nachman of Breslov

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

— Mark Twain

Manners will become important to children only if they are important to their parents.

— Thomas Lickona

Children are natural mimics. They act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners.

— Anonymous

We are all born rude. No infant has ever appeared yet with the grace to understand how inconsiderate it is to disturb others in…

— Judith Martin

Children are capable of such open rudeness.

— Trenton Lee Stewart

Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.

— Lynne Truss

Babies need social interactions with loving adults who talk with them, listen to their babblings, name objects for them, and give them opportunities to…

— Sandra Scarr

~I'm strict about manners. I think that kids have a horrible time with other people if they have bad manners… The one thing you've…

— Emma Thompson

Babies are like poems. They're beautiful to their creator, but to other people, they're silly and they're irritating.

— Doug Stanhope

Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value…

— Freya Stark

One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the…

— Judith Martin