Famous childhood quotations

   We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
 ~ by George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860

   Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.
 ~ by Katherine Anne Porter

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Wise Words, Witty Proverbs
   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.
 ~ by Elizabeth Lawrence

   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.
 ~ by Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

   The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day.
 ~ by John Milton, Paradise Regained

   Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.
 ~ by John Betjeman, Summoned by Bells

   Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.
 ~ by Malcolm de Chazal

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

   The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.
 ~ by Ellen Glasgow

   Sweet childish days, that were as long,As twenty days are now.
 ~ by William Wordsworth, To a Butterfly



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