When I was a child, I understood the things of my…

You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I…

— Anonymous

“Was the feeling that all is right with the world, my world, because your were its foundations, formed in childhood and with me grown…

— Rosamund Lupton

The protected place in space and time that we once called childhood has grown shorter.

— Mary Pipher

As soon as one knows one is going to die, childhood is over… So one can be grown up at seven. Then, I believe…

— Eugene Ionesco

“The child understood vaguely that in taking up literature, he had entered a domain where he could rely on nothing beyond himself. ”

— Anonymous

“As a child I understood how to give, I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. -”

— Luther Standing Bear

“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became…

— Julie Anne Long

“When I was a child, I thought as a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child but when I grew…

— Karleen Koen

As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I became civilized.

— Charles Alexander Eastman

The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood…

— Edna St Vincent Millay

Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them…

— Johnny Depp

“it's a wise parent who allows her children to give up the things of childhood in their own time.”

— Anonymous

The things about my childhood that I really loved the most, writing about those things was hard because I knew they would never happen…

— Tara Westover

There were many things in my childhood I sacrificed: I started travelling quite young, compromising school in terms of learning and time with friends…

— Valtteri Bottas