Verbal Roots Beginning

Famous quotes containing the words verbal, roots and/or beginning:

“Adults understandably assume that the level of verbal proficiency a five-year-old displays represents his level of proficiency in all areas of functioning—if he talks like an adult, he must think and feel like one. However, five-year-olds,... belie the promise of adult-like behavior with their child-like, impulsive actions.”
—Dorothy H. Cohen (20th century)

“The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.”
—Denis Waitly. Quoted in The Winning Family, ch. 25, by Louise Hart (1987)

“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)