Childhood Quotes

11 quotations about Childhood
Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
Ambrose Bierce · Childhood
But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.
Louise Bogan · Childhood
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Deepak Chopra · Childhood
What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
Meister Eckhart · Childhood
Childhood is a disease -- a sickness that you grow out of.
William Golding · Childhood
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
Edna St. Vincent Millay · Childhood
The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
John Milton · Childhood
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
Marcel Proust · Childhood
Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
William M. Thackeray · Childhood
That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
Virginia Woolf · Childhood
Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.
William Wordsworth · Childhood

Authors on Childhood

Ambrose Bierce Louise Bogan Deepak Chopra Meister Eckhart William Golding Edna St. Vincent Millay John Milton Marcel Proust William M. Thackeray Virginia Woolf William Wordsworth