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
Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.
– Katherine Anne
Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
– Ned Rorem
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.
– John Betjeman
Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.
– Malcolm de Chazal
I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood.
– Leverett Saltonstall
I’ve been following what’s happening in Colombia because it’s the country of my childhood.
– Barbet Schroeder
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
– Sigmund Freud
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
– Deepak Chopra
I alone, as the sharer of their way of life, presented a replica of childhood.
– Neal Cassady
He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle aged breast.
– Herbert Gold
How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.
– Harold Ramis
If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.
– Tracy Kidder
I’m mostly influenced by life, what’s around me, and my own childhood.
– Jack Prelutsky
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
– Pindar
A happy childhood… is the worst possible preparation for life.
– Kinky Friedman
Sweet childish days, that were as long As twenty days are now.
– William Wordsworth
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
– Tom Stoppard
If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
– Peter Handke
I’m one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.
– Jonathan Coe