| My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years. |
| I still had a normal childhood with my friends from school. |
| Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things. |
| Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death. |
| Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. |
| A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life. |
| Genius is childhood recalled at will. |
| Childhood is a short season. |
| Childhood is the sleep of reason. |
| There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. |