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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

Sweet childish days, that were as long
As 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, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

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. --Author Unknown

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

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. --Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory  (thanks Harold)

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, www.robertbrault.com

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

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"

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

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

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

Childhood is a short season. --Helen Hayes

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast. --Herbert Gold

Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath. --Author Unknown

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

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