The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
John Milton
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
Marcel Proust
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
Sigmund Freud
The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose
Garrison Keillor
When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood
Sam Ewing
Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.
Richard Zera
Childhood is a short season.
Helen Hayes
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
Robertson Davies
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never
Anna Jameson
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
Sidonie Gabrielle
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
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
George Eliot
It is never too late to have a happy childhood.
Tom Robbins
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.
Bill Watterson