Dark came early and stayed full of lights and the shouts of children.
– China Mieville
Preparing to go to school was like getting ready for extended deep sea diving.
– Jean Shepherd
In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.
– Robert Brault
Childhood is a short season.
– Helen Hayes
To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation — is there a worst trade one makes in life?
– Robert Brault
The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day.
– John Milton
What we remember from childhood we remember forever — permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.
– Cynthia Ozick
It is never too late to have a happy childhood.
– Tom Robbins
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
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
– Tom Stoppard
Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?
– Louis de Bernières
The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.
– Christopher Morley
When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn’t the old home you missed but your childhood.
– Sam Ewing
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
– Graham Greene
Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.
– Katherine Anne Porter
Childhood is a promise that is never kept.
– Ken Hill
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
Childhood is the most beautiful of all life’s seasons.
– Author Unknown
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
– George Eliot
Sweet childish days, that were as long As twenty days are now.
– William Wordsworth