Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between…

The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.

— G. Stanley Hall

When a new post-war generation has grown to puberty and to youth and to manhood and womanhood, it should read, and it should be…

— Edna Ferber

Children, it should be repeated, are not pocket editions of adults, because childhood is a period of physical growth and development, a period of…

— Grace Abbott

In childhood period we always wanted to grow fast but now while we are big, we realize that broken pencils and incomplete homework was…

— Unkown

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of…

— Anonymous

~¥~ Childhood is the only period where we don't know this world, where we are unaware of what is happening around us.à It is…

— Nadhira

I've always been someone in [childhood] period of my life sort of the pains and anxieties of being young are the things that have…

— Lena Dunham

“In those days, you must understand, children were basically thought to be inadequate adults. A child’s nature was not something that could be developed,…

— Andrew Davidson

My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

— Igor Stravinsky

“Russell commented that the development of such gifted individuals (referring to polymaths) required a childhood period in which there was little or no pressure…

— Carl Sagan

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of…

— John Berger

Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon…

— Adam Clarke

“What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text, in the face and behaviour of children, babes, and even brutes! That divided and rebel…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime.

— Ambrose Bierce