| The happy childhood is hardly worth your while. |
| Childhood has no necessary connection with age. |
| There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. |
| Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. |
| My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely. |
| Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood. |
| Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness. |
| A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. |
| I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood. |
| Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. |