Jason Statham Quotes

I think I learned how to swim before I could walk.

Babies got it going on!

My parents said that I was nine months old and would throw myself out of the crib onto the floor continually. As soon as they left the room after putting me back in they'd hear a big bump and I'd be on the floor again.

I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me.

I honestly think that kids should not exercise: they should keep fit through play. The most important age is zero to seven, both for the kid and the parent - for parents, because this is the time when your kid learns how to walk, talk and other behaviour.

A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball.

If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since.

It's hard to think of a 16-month child being anything other than a delight to be around.

When I was 3 years old, I thought I was very good at skiing.

I have for many years interested myself in the study of children from three years upwards. Many have urged me to continue my studies on the same lines with older children. But what I have felt to be most vital is the need for more careful and particularized study of the tiny child.

I think I remember being held by my mum as a baby.

The period from conception to two is about the development of a baby's emotional capacities. Mum saying, 'Oh, darling, I love you,' and singing baby songs and pulling faces literally stimulates the synapses in the brain.

Physical development fosters learning.

When I was a baby I had no teeth. I couldn't get a job and I couldn't eat meat.

What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three double espressos.

It's saying no. That's your first hint that something's alive. It says no. That's how you know a baby is starting to turn into a person. They run around saying no all day, throwing their aliveness at everything to see what it'll stick to. You can't say no if you don't have desires and opinions and wants of your own. You wouldn't even want to. No is the heart of thinking.

Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.

In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. In these years, the child not only increases in size but passes through great transformations. This is the age in which language and movement develop. The child must be safeguarded in order that these activities may develop freely.

I was a very fat baby.

I'm a visual learner, so with hand-eye coordination, I was a natural.

Children need sports, even if they are inclined towards academics.

Until I was about ten, I wasn't that good. I just had loads of energy and loved running around.

As soon as I was old enough to move and walk, I went straight to sports. My mom said I never even played with toys.