There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.
- Maria Calla

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

A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.
- Marion C. Garretty

Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.
- Cesare Pavese

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
- Henri Frederic Amiel

The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remaining over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves.
- Kahlil Gibran

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!
- Max Muller

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
- Pindar

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death.
- Rollo May

Tis not a life, ‘Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away.
- Francis Beaumont

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.
- Anna Jameson

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
- Garrison Keillo

We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It’s just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
- Ben Okri

Boston’s freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.
- Bill Bryson

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.
- Thomas Szasz

As for AIDS, it’s a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it’s a quarter; after that it’s a childhood disease.
- Larry Niven

Childhood is a promise that is never kept.
- Ken Hill

A happy childhood… is the worst possible preparation for life.
- Kinky Friedman

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.
- George Will

Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
- William Golding

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

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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

I never really had a childhood. I was around adults all the time. My favorite book when I was eight was Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex – But Were Afraid to Ask. I was not afraid to ask.
- Drew Barrymore

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.
- Brian W. Aldiss

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.
- Louise J. Kaplan

Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.
- Valentina Tereshkova

The son whines to his father, “You messed up my childhood!” And the father says, “How could I, son? I wasn’t even there.
- Anonymous

There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
- Charles Dickens