Childhood Quotes

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.
- Herbert Gold

Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.
- Malcolm de Chazal

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

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

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
- Phyllis Diller

A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often.
- Anonymous Author

I am fond of children - except boys.
- Lewis Carroll

A boy is a noise with dirt on it.
- Anonymous Author

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
- Angela Schwindt

Your children are not your children.They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
- Kahlil GibranThe Prophet.