“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 pretty poor life.”
Others on Childhood
George R.R. Martin
2 quotes“Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.”
Pablo Neruda
2 quotes“Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.”
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.”
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 Eliot
1 quote“They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed behind them.”
Tom Robbins
1 quote“It's never too late to have a happy childhood.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1 quote“Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.”
Bill Watterson
1 quote“If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.”
P.D. James
1 quote“Every island to a child is a treasure island.”
Toni Morrison
1 quote“Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.”