“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 child?”
More from Mitch Albom on Childhood
Others on Childhood
Pablo Neruda
2 quotes“Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.”
George R.R. Martin
2 quotes“Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.”
Pat Conroy
2 quotes“There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.”
Patrick Rothfuss
2 quotes“If I ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.”
William Wordsworth
2 quotes“The child is father of the man.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1 quote“Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.”
Neil Gaiman
1 quote“Adults follow paths. Children explore.”
Stephen King
1 quote“What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be”
Frederick Douglass
1 quote“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
Jhumpa Lahiri
1 quote“With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before”
Nelson Mandela
1 quote“There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.”
Tom Robbins
1 quote“It's never too late to have a happy childhood.”