| "Life is the childhood of our immortality." »Johann von Goethe |
| "It's never to late to have a happy childhood." »Wayne W Dyer |
| "Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood." »Georges Bataille |
| "People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children." »Bill Watterson |
| "A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life." »Robertson Davies |
| "There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets in the future." »Graham Green |
| "The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence." »Bruce Barton |
| "The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence." »Art Linkletter |
| "childhood is that wonderful time when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath." »Joe Moore |
| "It's essential that a part of you not grow up. childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty." »Robin Quivers |
| "A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts." »Colette |
| "Frankly, I think the chances of having a happy childhood while you're still a kid going through it are pretty slim." »Edith Ann |
| "When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood." »Sam Ewig |
| "My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own parenthood, but it didn't because parenting can be learned only by people who have no children." »Bill Cosby |
| "Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal |
| "We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." »J. D. Salinger |
| "When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay." »Brian Aldiss |
| "The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance." »Akhenaton |
| "It's not that age brings childhood back again, Age merely shows what children we remain." »German proverb |
| "Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum." »Thomas Szasz |
| "Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in ... Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood." »Peter Medawar |
| "The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day." »John Milton |
| "People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given." »Sue Grafton |
| "People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given." »Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett |
| "In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe." »Lydia Sigourney |
| "We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice-that is, until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'" »Sydney Harris |
| "All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood." »Benjamin McLane Spock |
| "Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood." »Fred Rogers |
| "Wisdom and spirit of the Universe Thou soul is the eternity of thought That giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion Not in vain By day or star-light thus from by first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul, Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things, With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline Both pain and fear, until we recognize A grandeur in the beatings of the heart." »William Wordsworth |
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