Preverbal Communication Quotes

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

My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that.

Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other - beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival - a knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other.

I started dancing before I could talk. Other babies learn to stand and then walk - I just danced.

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

I was singing before I could talk.

I wondered if she was trying to convey something to me, something she could not put into words - something prior to words that she could not grasp within herself and which therefore had no hope of ever turning into words.

Babies are thinking and attracting before they are speaking. Even though you are only months old in your physical body, you are a very old and wise Creator, focused in that baby's body.