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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 longAs 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

The greatest poem ever knownIs 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 childFor 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 manAs 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