 A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality. Author: Pindar |
| When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood. Author: Sam Ewing |
| Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. Author: Lydia M. Child |
| There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30. Author: Cleveland Amory |
| It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like. Author: Maya Lin |
| It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought. Author: Alice Miller |
| There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. Author: Marcel Proust |
| Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice. Author: David Elkind |
| Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. Author: John Betjeman |
| When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults. Author: Brian Aldiss |
| The events of childhood do not pass, but repeat themselves like seasons of the year. Author: Eleanor Farjeon |
| Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never. Author: Anna Jameson |
| Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of. Author: William Golding |
| Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood. Author: Beryl Bainbridge |
| A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost. Author: Marion C. Garretty |
| Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them! Author: Max Muller |
| There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. Author: Deepak Chopra |
| The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death. Author: Desiderius Erasmus |
| Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it. Author: George Will |
| Genius is the recovery of childhood at will. Author: Arthur Rimbaud |
