Children Quote by Henry David Thoreau

I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.

— Jan Karon

It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach to grammar,…

— Niels Kaj Jerne

“Cadus spoke the local Greek better than I did; they stretch the vowels here, and round them off, so that words that look the…

— M.C. Scott

“One thing I never forgot from my Latin class is that a language that is descended from another language is called a daughter language.…

— Cheryl Strayed

“When a child says, “Mr. Roberson, how do you spell this word? What does that word mean?” I’ll look tortured. “Oh,” I’ll exclaim, hand…

— Doug Robertson

[Latin] allows you to adore words, take them apart and find out where they came from.

— Dr. Seuss

Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and German.

— Clarence Nash

My mother had been a Latin teacher, and she was always very fascinated with words. She and I shared books and responded to them.

— Jean Fritz

I think it was something I inherited from my mother, who learned to do it. You know, I, like a baby duckling, was merely…

— Trevor Noah

A language Older Than Words

— Derrick Jensen

My mom named me Pom because she said it sounded like a combination of Korean words that mean 'spring' and 'tiger.' So, it's very…

— Pom Klementieff

My weapon has always been language, and I've always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives now, I…

— Sandra Cisneros