“Child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived within him and who he will miss terribly”
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William Wordsworth
2 quotes“The child is father of the man.”
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.”
Pat Conroy
2 quotes“There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.”
Mitch Albom
2 quotes“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...”
George R.R. Martin
2 quotes“Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.”
Bill Watterson
1 quote“If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.”
C.S. Lewis
1 quote“I fancy that most of those who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.”
Sir Winston Churchill
1 quote“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...”
Emily Dickinson
1 quote“The Babies we were are buried, and their shadows are plodding on.”
Federico Fellini
1 quote“No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.”
Frank Herbert
1 quote“What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?”
Fred Rogers
1 quote“Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.”