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Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh and astonishing. Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing. When the world gives you a feeling of "déjà vu," when you are used to existence, you become an adult.
EUGENE IONESCO, Present Past / Past Present
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, Wine from these Grapes
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
GRAHAM GREENE, The Power and the Glory
Childhood, n. 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
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
SIGMUND FREUD, Civilization and Its Discontents
The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.
FRANK MCCOURT, Angela's Ashes
You can go through life and make new friends every year--every month practically--but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER, Family Circle Magazine, Aug. 9, 2005
Childhood is a disease -- a sickness that you grow out of.
WILLIAM GOLDING, London Guardian, Jun. 22, 1990
Childhood is supposed to be happy, and if you can't remember yours with any happiness, what hope have you later, when life starts handing you fresh grief?
AMITY GAIGE, Good Housekeeping, Feb. 2009
The brightest light, the light of Italy, the purest sky of Scandinavia in the month of June is only a half-light when one compares it to the light of childhood. Even the nights were blue.
EUGENE IONESCO, Present Past / Past Present
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