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"