Quotes on childhood
Childhood is the most beautiful of all life's seasons.
Unknown, Author
What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.
Ozick, Cynthia
Childhood is a promise that is never kept.
Hill, Ken
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
Eliot, George
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.
Lawrence, Elizabeth
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.
Betjeman, John
The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.
Glasgow, Ellen
Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.
Porter, Katherine Anne
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.
Bierce, Ambrose
Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.
de Chazal, Malcolm