“If I ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.”

“The child is father of the man.”

“There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.”

“Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.”

“Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.”

“What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a chil...”

“If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.”

“I fancy that most of those who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.”

“The Babies we were are buried, and their shadows are plodding on.”

“Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.”

“Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.”

“When I hear a man say that his childhood was the happiest time of his life, I think (puff) my friend, you have had a pre...”