Quotes about childhood

"Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward."

Bierce, Ambrose on childhood   

"But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell."

Bogan, Louise on childhood   

"There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in."

Greene, Graham on childhood
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"Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder."

Cohen, Leonard on childhood   

"What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love."

Eckhart, Meister on childhood   

"Childhood is a disease -- a sickness that you grow out of."

Golding, William on childhood   

"Let a man turn to his own childhood -- no further -- if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change."

Meynell, Alice on childhood   

"Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is."

Millay, Edna St. Vincent on childhood   

"The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day."

Milton, John on childhood   

"What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero."

Picasso, Pablo on childhood   

"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book."

Proust, Marcel on childhood
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"The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived."

Pyle, Howard on childhood   

"Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out."

Thackeray, William M. on childhood   

"Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?"

Traherne, Thomas on childhood   

"I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts."

Wilder, Thornton on childhood   

"That great Cathedral space which was childhood."

Woolf, Virginia on childhood   

"Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy."

Wordsworth, William on childhood   

"I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. "

Neruda, Pablo on childhood   

"Now, on the road to freedom, I was pausing for a moment near Temuco and could hear the voice of the water that had taught me to sing. "

Neruda, Pablo on childhood   

"If only, If only, life was as simple as it was during childhood."

Unknown, Source on childhood
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"a happy childhood needs a parent's unhappy childhood to make it so."

Unknown on childhood
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