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 the most beautiful of all life's seasons. ~Author Unknown


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


He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast. ~Herbert Gold


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 a promise that is never kept. ~Ken Hill


It is never too late to have a happy childhood. ~Tom Robbins


Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights; before the dark hour of reason grows. ~John Betjeman; Summoned by Bells


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 Porter


There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. ~Deepak Chopra


Childhood:? the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. ~Ambrose Bierce; The Devil's Dictionary; 1911


What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts; stamped; inked; imprinted; eternally seen. ~Cynthia Ozick


If you carry your childhood with you; you never become older. ~Tom Stoppard


Childhood is a short season. ~Helen Hayes


Old age lives minutes slowly; hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes. ~Malcolm de Chazal


Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath. ~Author Unknown