Children Quote by Michael Gove

It's a precious thing to be communicating to children, helping them discover the gift of language and thought.

— Richard Scarry

“If you love the language, the greatest thing you can do to ensure its survival is not to complain about bad usage but to…

— Robert MacNeil

“how bilingualism has been shown to benefit • bilingual children’s precocious knowledge of language, • their enhanced cognitive development in general, and • the…

— Barbara Zurer Pearson

Increasingly, over the past ten years, I've come to take the view that a cultural perspective is intrinsic to the future of language teaching…

— David Crystal

“Learning a language promoted the first tender shoots of intercultural understanding. People became familiar with previously alien concepts and, as a consequence, more open…

— Fay Abernethy

Languages are fluffy big pillows stuffed between nations - what others say is muffled and nearly lost in them, and when we speak their…

— Richard Bach

The only international language in the world is a child's cry,

— Eglantyne Jebb

One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish's 'Monster Blood Tattoo,' in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are reading that…

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

We've already recognized that it is absolutely essential for British children to learn other languages and we will be working hard to put further…

— John Whitehead

From the earliest moments of life, children begin to learn the fundamentals of language. The most powerful influence for effective language development are the…

— David Perlmutter

It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.

— Frances Mayes

I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also…

— Peter Høeg