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

“Children should neither be seen nor heard from – ever again.”

W.C. Fields (1880–1946) actor

“It is said that the children of the very poor are not brought up, but dragged up.”

Charles Dickens book Bleak House

“…once she becomes a teenager…well, sometimes there's nothing you can do. With or without you, in the end, children grow up to become the people they were meant to be.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

“Well we think you'd better wake up capt'n
There's something happen'n up ahead
We've never seen anything like it
We've never seen anything like it before.”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer

“The Speaker is seen, but not heard and the President is neither seen nor heard. He would very much would a President who is neither seen nor heard, but who decides. I would like to do something silently.”

Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1913–1996) sixth President of India

“So many adults are just very large children who were never seen and heard and felt and understood and allowed and enabled to be.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“Just like children, emotions heal when they are heard and validated.”

Jill Bolte Taylor (1959) American neuroscientist

“We have been trying to address the issue that Nietszche brought up, which is something like the reunification of the spirit of mankind. It's something like that. Well, we're slogging through it. That's the aim.”

Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology

“The rich scent of well-balanced soil was like incense.”

Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States