Quotations about Childhood


Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good. 
 Katherine Anne Porter
What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.  
Cynthia Ozick
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

Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.  Author Unknown
Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.  
Malcolm de Chazal
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
There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.  
Mark Twain

The world knows how to straighten out a spoiled child but never makes it up to a child deprived.  
Robert Brault
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
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
When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.  
Sam Ewing
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.  
John Betjeman

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