Children Should Be Seen Not Heard Quotes

#1. In my opinion, children should be seen and not heard. I'm an adult, so it follows that I should be heard and not seen. That's why I work exclusively over the intercom.

Lemony Snicket

#2. Make thyself perfect; others, happy.

John Lancaster Spalding

#3. My father didn't like people. He didn't like me. "Children should be seen and not heard," he told me.

Charles Bukowski

#4. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

Eric Hoffer

#5. Mr. Speaker, there are some in this Chamber who believe that Christians, like well-behaved children, should be seen and not heard ... Christians will not remain silent. We are here to stay.

Tom DeLay

#6. BEYOND THE FARM, they'd heard, there were strange pale children who grew up entirely indoors and knew nothing of the fields and streams. Some of these children, they'd heard, had never even seen a tree.

Julie Otsuka

#7. As children, we have a tenuous idea of love; we often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard.

Adora Svitak

#8. Growing up in Ireland, there never seemed to be the notion that children should be seen and not heard. We all looked forward to mealtimes when we'd sit around the table and talk about our days. Storytelling and long, rambling conversations were considered good things.

Maeve Binchy

#9. The hardest part of it was really being away from my family - I have two small children. Last year I took over 20 business trips, so being away from them was hard.

James Daly

#10. The rich, like well brought up children, are meant to be seen, not heard.

Lewis H. Lapham

#11. In one sense, I felt not seen and heard enough as a child. At the very same time, I'm watching her and modeling her. At seventeen, I left to go to Hollywood to pursue my dream, as if there was no other option. I only learned that, the gift of it, recently. And I often forget it.

Daphne Zuniga

#12. Writing is still a bit of a miracle - the whole process: I see the world, filter the world, write down abstract squiggles on a page which somebody is then able to connect with. I'm still amazed by it and think I always will be.

Rebecca Miller

#13. I am a child of cinema, and I am a cineaste, so everything I do is a reference to something I've heard or experienced or seen. And we all do it, we all steal. The ones who claim they don't, are obviously lying, because you do. You just have to make it your own.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#14. You see we adults have learned how to disguise our terrible characters but a child ... well, it's like a grotesque drawing of us. They should be neither seen nor heard. And no one must make another one.

Gore Vidal

#15. All great gifts come with a great price, Bel murmured.

C.L. Wilson

#16. In America there's a saying that children should be seen and not heard, .. In Cambodia, children should not be seen nor heard because you would not survive.

Loung Ung

#17. One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Edmund Burke

#18. When you were a bird you knew the fairies pretty well, and you remember a good deal about them in your babyhood, which it is a great pity you can't write down, for gradually you forget, and I have heard of children who declared that they had never once seen a fairy.

J.M. Barrie

#19. The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass.

Oscar Wilde

#20. Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.

W.C. Fields

#21. It is my deepest conviction that the children should be seen and heard as our most treasured assets.

Nelson Mandela

#22. I was raised in a time where children were still seen and not heard basically, so I think a lot of us in my generation went the other way and just tried to be as much more liberal and open and we're still paying for it.

Blythe Danner