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 :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 measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. ~John Betjeman, Summoned by Bells :Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. ~John Betjeman, Summoned by Bells
Sweet childish days, that were as longAs twenty days are now.~William Wordsworth, "To a Butterfly" :Sweet childish days, that were as longAs twenty days are now.~William Wordsworth, "To a Butterfly"
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. :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.
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 :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
Childhood is the most beautiful of all life's seasons. :Childhood is the most beautiful of all life's seasons.
Childhood is a promise that is never kept. ~Ken Hill :Childhood is a promise that is never kept. ~Ken Hill
Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good. ~Katherine Anne Porter :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 :There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. ~Deepak Chopra
When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood. ~Sam Ewing :When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood. ~Sam Ewing
In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in. ~Robert Brault, :In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in. ~Robert Brault,
The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown:The poetry, innate, untold,Of being only four years old.~Christopher Morley, To a Child :The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown:The poetry, innate, untold,Of being only four years old.~Christopher Morley, To a Child
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. ~Tom Stoppard :If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. ~Tom Stoppard
I'd give all wealth that years have piled, The slow result of Life's decay, To be once more a little child For one bright summer day.~Lewis Carroll, "Solitude" :I'd give all wealth that years have piled, The slow result of Life's decay, To be once more a little child For one bright summer day.~Lewis Carroll, "Solitude"