Children's quotes

Teacher discussing Thanksgiving:
"What would you like to give thanks for?
Little girl:"Frogs!
"Why frogs?"
"Because when you kiss them they turn into princes"

Teacher discussing evolution: "Where do you think the sun comes from?"
Child: "Holiday"

Miss Felicity: "What do you want to be in the school concert?"
"Spiderman!"
"Do you want to be a king spiderman or a shepherd spiderman?"
Long pause:
"Spiderman spiderman"

(Child: 1, Miss Felicity: 0 !!)

Teacher to little boy: "I bumped into your mum in a shop at lunch time".
Little boy: "Did you say sorry?"

Little girl: "I speak so many languages - French, English, American and Babyish"

"Stop in the name of the law of gravity"

Little girl: "My great, great, great, great grandfather went to heaven".
Miss Emily: "What about your great grandfather?".
Child thinks..."I think he went to another country

Little boy: "You can die if you do cigaretting"

Little girl while making a family tree: "I wish I had a family tree in my garden"

Doing insect terminology cards, discussing why the insect had legs towards the top of its body: "I know why - in case he wants to do a headstand"

Doing the timeline of her life a little girl asked by her teacher: "What did you turn after two?" replied "Left"

Miss Felicity to little boy: "You are sweet enough to eat. Can I eat you?"
Serious answer: "No, have a bite of my biscuit"

"My Mummy cried on my first day at school so I had to take her home"

Miss Felicity: "Look at that flutterby".
American child: "In English we call it a butterflap"

Little boy talking to teacher about the fact that she is pregnant and the baby is in her tummy: "Why did you eat your baby?"

Boy to girl: "Broom the hair out of your eyes"

"I can feel a sneeze on the inside but not on the outside"

"This spider looks just like a spider!"

"You're the best teacher in the whole world. The world is nice because of you"

Edward's mum told Edward how Daddy does lots of hard work so that he can get lots of money to buy food and clothes for the family. Following this, Edward asked his mum to take the laces completely out of his shoes and do them up again. "That's a lot of hard work, Edward". "Yes, Mummy, but it's a lot of money"!

Mum to daughter: "What do you think you'll do at school today?"
Daughter: "It's a surprise ... every day is a surprise"

Child making a crown
Teacher: "Will it be the right size?"
Child: "I don't know. I have quite a lot of brains"

Little boy: "I don't want to turn four so I've cancelled my birthday"

Little girl: "The baby is sleeping at home because Mummy says we've got to keep it"

"We have to draw a map so we know what planet we're on"

Little boy when asked by his mother to show his sister around the classroom: "She has eyes"

"Do you know I come from Africa? I'm just here to visit. And do you know how long it takes me to get there? Eleven minutes and forty two twelve!"

On return from a Thomas's London Day Schools assessment: "They gave me a piano lesson"

Teacher: "What was spat out of the volcano?"
Child: "Sandwiches"

Three boys: "Spiderman climbs walls". "Batman flies". "So does Superman"
Little girl: "Well, the Spice Girls sing"
Teacher "Are you sure?"!

Little boy before the concert: "Sing so your parents' hearts fill with happiness"
Second little boy: "Their hearts will fill with blood"

Sasha: "h is for house"
Roberta: "H is for Harrods"

At harvest: "When I give things away, I feel happier"

Teacher spills some polish refill over her smock
Little girl: "You're supposed to be a grownup. You shouldn't do things like that!"

"Miss Felicity, you're not like my teacher back home. You're cool!"

Little American boy to girl: "Say, [name], you sure have put a lot of weight on over the holidays"

"My mummy married in Sweden and I had to wait a year until I came out"

Teacher: "This is a house fly"
Little boy: "Houses can't fly!"

A little boy, having learnt about Eid-ul-Fitr and Diwali, said on seeing a crescent moon: "The Hindus must be partying tonight"

Child: "I went to a pizza restaurant"
Teacher: "Was it Pizza Express?"
Child: "No, it didn't move"

Little boy when asked why he wasn't at school (the school had closed for a week because of a case of swine flu) said: "It's because the school has a cough"

Little boy looking at a  book with the planets of the solar system:

"I can't live on Earth because it is too blue and cold, not on Jupiter because it is too orange, I can't get into Saturn because of the rings- that's why I live on Venus"

A teacher asked a little boy who was looking at the fish tank what he thought the fish were doing: "They're doing yoga"

Teacher to little girl: "What is a caterpillar?"
"It is a cat that turns into a butterfly. Cat-er-pillar"

Said by a two year old: "15 is a good age to get earrings. I'm going to get diamonds"

Miss Felicity to little boy during rehearsals for Christmas play:

"Do you want to be Joseph?"

"No. I want to be Mary!"

Little boy coming down the stairs with a sore thumb: "I've hurt my fum"

Lunch bunch boy at bottom of stairs begins to sing: "Old Macdonald had a fum"

Twin sisters talking about going to primary school:

First twin: "You know, next year at 'Big Girl School' we get to wear a dress every day!"
Second twin: "But, it's the SAME dress every day"
First twin: "Oh -- that's not good!"