Childhood Quotes

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
- Margaret Atwood

And I leave the children the long, long days to be merry in in a thousand ways, and the Night, and the trail of the Milky Way to wonder at....
- Williston Fish, "A Last Will," 1898

In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.
- Robert Brault

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

Children make you want to start life over.
- Muhammad Ali

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
- Dogen Zenji Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.
- Mona Crane

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.
- John Betjeman, Summoned by Bells

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

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
- Mark Twain