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| >There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again. ~ Elizabeth Lawrence |
| Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. ~ John Betjeman, |
Sweet childish days, that were as long
As twenty days are now.
~ William Wordsworth |
| Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth – two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. ~ Ambrose Bierce, |
| We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it. ~ George Eliot, |
| Childhood is the most beautiful of all life’s seasons. ~ Author Unknown |
| Childhood is a promise that is never kept. ~ Ken Hill |
| Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good. ~ Katherine Anne Porter |
| There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. ~ Graham Greene, |
| When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn’t the old home you missed but your childhood. ~ Sam Ewing |
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| In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in. ~ Robert Brault |
The greatest poem ever known
Is one all poets have outgrown:
The poetry, innate, untold,
Of being only four years old.
~ Christopher Morley, |
| If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. ~ Tom Stoppard |
I’d give all wealth that years have piled,
The slow result of Life’s decay,
To be once more a little child
For one bright summer day.
~ Lewis Carroll |
| It is never too late to have a happy childhood. ~ Tom Robbins |
| What we remember from childhood we remember forever – permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. ~ Cynthia Ozick |
The childhood shows the man
As morning shows the day.
~ John Milton, |
| Childhood is a short season. ~ Helen Hayes |
| He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast. ~ Herbert Gold |
| Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath. ~ Author Unknown |
| The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give. ~ Ellen Glasgow |
| Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes. ~ Malcolm de Chazal |