Children Quote by Siddhartha Mukherjee

“When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a…

— Anonymous

“Children can be so cruel,’ the Doctor said. ‘Children’s writers can be even worse.”

— Puffin

“No child, still less a foetus, has ever mastered the art of small talk, or would ever want to. It’s an adult device, a…

— Ian McEwan

With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.

— Andrew Solomon

“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became…

— Julie Anne Long

“My mother always said that childish and childlike were two entirely different concepts.” “Words to live by.”

— ReGina Welling

“A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance.”

— Chanakya

“to leave a child without language for a moment longer than is absolutely necessary seems cruel to me.”

— Lou Ann Walker

I abhor 'baby talk.' I speak to kids like I would any other person, and they seem to respond to it.

— Rich Sommer

“I had long since wished that they would have been born with a dictionary sized how-to guide in my placenta. It would have been…

— Anna Aquino

“If we use child in a good sense (it has also legitimately a bad one) we must not allow that to push us into…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Maybe when parents name their children they do it from the perspective of wishful thinking. Like when you go to a restaurant and ask…

— Julie Buxbaum