Children Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

My sister and brother and I grew up speaking both languages - French to our father and English to our mother. But when we…

— Princess Stephanie of Monaco

Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

— Alan Jay Lerner

There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world.…

— Maria Montessori

I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.

— John Milton

A child, when it begins to speak, learns what it is that it knows.

— John Hall Wheelock

The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.

— Zhuangzi

The French believe that kids feel confident when they're able to do things for themselves, and do those things well. After children have learned…

— Pamela Druckerman

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

— Maria Montessori

all the French speak French - even the children. Many Americans and Britishers who visit the country never quite adjust to this, and the…

— Olivia de Havilland

All communication is more or less cross-cultural. We learn to use language as we grow up, and growing up in different parts of the…

— Deborah Tannen

The Internet lets women use words, which is their natural tool. Little girls speak in more complex, grammatical sentences than little boys do, and…

— Helen Fisher

My parents have always had a very limited command of English. Of course, when we first arrived in the UK, none of us spoke…

— Zia Haider Rahman