Age Quote by Steven Pinker

People who are pro smacking children say, 'It's the only language they understand.' You could apply that to tourists.

— Jack Dee

In those times when a kid first tries to express themselves creatively, it sets them on a different path. Sometimes, that path can be…

— Paul Dini

We are rearing a generation of kids who are more equitable and more understanding about the existence of language variety and why it is…

— David Crystal

We decipherers cannot afford to be as picky as the linguist, who can always run back to a native speaker for a few more…

— E. J. W. Barber

I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

“The more parents talk to their children, even in the earliest moments of life, the better their kids’ linguistic abilities become”

— John Medina

To money, the finest linguist in the world!

— Minna Antrim

The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have cost us,…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

— William James

It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly.

— Julie Burchill

“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

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

— George Santayana