Acres Quote by Carson McCullers

Do you remember your childhood? I am always coming across these marvelous accounts by writers who declare that they remember 'everything.' I certainly don't.…

— Katherine Mansfield

We've forgotten what it's like not to be able to reach the light switch. We've forgotten a lot of the monsters that seemed to…

— Fred Rogers

Lots of children have had dark experiences, and if they're not having direct dark experiences, they are thinking about things and learning that life…

— Matt Haig

It was a really lucky childhood and while, yeah, there were bits of darkness, which is known about because my mother has made no…

— Sophie Dahl

Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult…

— Neil Gaiman

My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.

— Martha Graham

If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images harbored in…

— Gaston Bachelard

“Memories of our childhood are like images painted on a wet canvas, they merge until they lose all shape, often remaing only as feelings.”

— Brian Mynott

I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.

— Robert Carlyle

The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your childhood.

— John Dufresne

The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood — the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don't see.

— Maurice Sendak

Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memories…

— Steven Johnson