Gary Busey Quotes

Dr. [Paula] Menyuk and her co-workers [at Boston University's School of Education] found that parents who supplied babies with a steady stream of information were not necessarily helpful. Rather, early, rich language skills were more likely to develop when parents provided lots of opportunities for their infants and toddlers to "talk" and when parents listened and responded to the babies' communications.

The baby will talk when he talks, relax. It ain't like he knows the cure for cancer and just ain't spitting it out.

Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first.

If Newborn Babies Could Speak They Would Be The Most Intelligent Beings On Planet Earth.

My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words.

My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.

The level of communication you can achieve with an infant is really profound.

One of my little girls is named Reagan. Her first words were, 'Mr. Larry, tear down this crib.' That was her first words, it was very sweet. My first words were, 'Are you going to finish that sandwich?'

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back.

When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.

People often ask me why I sing with a strong Irish accent. I suppose when I was five years old, I spoke with a strong Irish accent, so I sang with one, too.

When I was little, seven or eight years old, in third and fourth grade, I would always try to use long words and stuff.

Babies aren't savages. Toddlers understand language long before they can talk.

It was very difficult to leave Argentina when I was kid, so I only spoke Spanish for the first six years of my life.

I learned to sing as I was learning to talk.

The linguistic clumsiness of tourists and students might be the price we pay for the linguistic genius we displayed as babies, just as the decrepitude of age in the price we pay for the vigor of youth.

There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse; infants are not part of the realm of ordinary language, talk is inadequate to them as they are inadequate to talk.

No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop a language from scratch.

I've got a little baby, I made him...He doesn't speak, he's 2...He's a slow learner, he's only got 2 words...car and map...I'm slightly worried he's trying to escape. If his next word is passport we are in serious trouble!

You speak baby gibberish?' asked Jack. 'Fluently. The adult-education center ran a course, and I have a lot of time on my hands.' 'So what did he say?' 'I don't know.' 'I thought you said you spoke gibberish?' 'I do. But your baby doesn't. I think he's speaking either pre-toddler nonsense, a form of infact burble or an obscure dialect of gobbledygook. In any event, I can't understand a word he's saying.' 'Oh.

I got my first laugh when my mother entered me in a baby contest.