Child Quotes

• "Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes."
  By: Malcolm de Chazal
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• "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
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• "The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day."
  By: John Milton, Paradise Regained
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• "What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen."
  By: Cynthia Ozick
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• "Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good."
  By: Katherine Anne Porter
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• "The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old."
  By: Christopher Morley, To a Child
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• "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
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• "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
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• "Sweet childish days, that were as long As twenty days are now."
  By: William Wordsworth, "To a Butterfly"
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• "Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows."
  By: John Betjeman, Summoned Bells
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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."
  By: Elizabeth Lawrence
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• "The protected place in space and time that we once called childhood has grown shorter"
  By: Mary Pipher
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• "Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of"
  By: William Golding
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• "The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain"
  By: Mary Shelley
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• "There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book"
  By: Marcel Proust
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• "My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell"
  By: Igor Stravinsky
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