A Quote by Bennett Cerf

They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans' home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and the boy volunteered to say the prayer in his stead. He did it perfectly, too, without a single stutter. Later he explained, "I don't stutter when I talk to God. He loves me."

Bennett Cerf

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Bennett Cerf
American - Journalist
May 25, 1898 - August 27, 1971

I used to not stutter any. Oh, I did when I was a kid, I stuttered, I had a bad stutter until I was probably between the second and third grade and a guy got rid of it for me.

Lee Hazlewood

I don't stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.

Bennett Cerf

I grew up with an absolutely horrible, debilitating stutter, and it was what caused me to retreat into myself and caused me to have very few friends and not want to socialize, and it made me absolutely terrified of giving reports in school. It was awful. It wasn't until I was 19 that I had intensive speech therapy. I had it for two years and it really helped, though I will say when I'm tired, the stutter comes out, even now.

Tim Gunn

A large part of me becoming a performer was a make-or-break way of getting over that stutter. I sometimes wonder if, subliminally, that was part of the reason I got into the business, and the more I became a performer and grew in confidence, the less pronounced the stutter became.

Paul Young

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!

Philip Roth

We are formed by environment and grace, by politics and prayer, by church and conscience. All God's creatures conspire to teach us as well. We stumble. We stutter. We rise. We are lifted.

Anthony of Padua

I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman who has had plastic bags needlessly inserted into her breasts?', that fifteen year old boy would probably be like, 'what's plastic?'.

John Green

I had a stutter when I was a young. I went to speech therapy.

Zach Ertz

There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.

Leo Tolstoy

I don't think I ever felt an outsider when I had a stutter.

Sam Neill

When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

Amy Winehouse

If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.

Mark Twain

Sometimes, when I'm trying to get my thoughts out, and I'm thinking too fast, I stutter.

Domo Genesis

I think that photography has allowed me to have a voice. I used to stutter, and once I overcame that struggle, it felt good to tell people they were beautiful and special.

Jamel Shabazz

If you're a kid, it's all you think about if you stutter. Kids can be so mean. My grades suffered. Class participation weighs heavy in grading, and I wouldn't open my mouth to read or talk in front of anyone.

Kenyon Martin

You can hear me starting to stutter and slur my words.

Mark Hunt

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