We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
George Eliot - Keyword(s): , Nostalgia

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 - Keyword(s):

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 - Keyword(s): , Age , Humankind , Life

As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my childhood on the farm, the fields and forests were places of adventure and self-discovery. Animals were companions and friends, and the world moved at a slower, more rational pace than the bustling cities where I'd resided my adult life.
David Mixner - Keyword(s): Nature , Animals , Adult

When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.
Karl Ove Knausgaard - Keyword(s): Freedom , Life , Adult

Childhood is a short season.
Helen Hayes - Keyword(s):

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
Al Capone - Keyword(s): God , Prayer , Religion

When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.
Sam Ewing - Keyword(s):

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.
Herbert Gold - Keyword(s):

Childhood is a promise that is never kept.
Ken Hill - Keyword(s):

It is never too late to have a happy childhood.
Tom Robbins - Keyword(s):

The childhood shows the man as morning shows the day.
John Milton - Keyword(s):

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.
Joe Manchin - Keyword(s): Adult , Teachers , Parents

Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.
Malcolm de Chazal - Keyword(s):

Sweet childish days, that were as long as twenty days are now.
William Wordsworth - Keyword(s):

Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.
Anonymous - Keyword(s):

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
Tom Stoppard - Keyword(s):

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.
Cynthia Ozick - Keyword(s): , Memory

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 - Keyword(s):

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 - Keyword(s):

Childhood is the most beautiful of all life's seasons.
Anonymous - Keyword(s):

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Graham Greene - Keyword(s):

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 - Keyword(s):

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.
John Betjeman - Keyword(s):

Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.
Katherine Anne Porter - Keyword(s):

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 - Keyword(s):

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?
Louis de Bernieres - Keyword(s):