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, Summoned by Bells
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it. – George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860
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, The Power and the Glory (Thanks, Harold)
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, rbrault.blogspot.com
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. – Tom Stoppard
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
To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation — is there a worst trade one makes in life? – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Childhood is a short season. – Helen Hayes
In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
And I leave the children the long, long days to be merry in in a thousand ways, and the Night, and the trail of the Milky Way to wonder at…. – Williston Fish, “A Last Will,” 1898
I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted — stay up all night or eat ice cream straight out of the container. – Bill Bryson
He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast. – Herbert Gold
All any child needs is the protection of loving parents and an alternative source of information. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
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
The world knows how to straighten out a spoiled child but never makes it up to a child deprived. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
