Adolescence Quote by Cesare Pavese

Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.

— Kim Stanley Robinson

I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can…

— Sadie Jones

Childhood lasts all through life.

— Gaston Bachelard

Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who must be…

— Sandra Scarr

Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that…

— Lillian Hellman

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.

— Benjamin Franklin

Childhood has definitely been invented, hasn't it? I think that's because people had children later, and we appreciate and cherish childhood a lot more.

— Helen McCrory

My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is a basic…

— Karl Rahner

Remember, childhood only lasts 10-12 years. There's a lot that has to be squeezed in to make for a lifetime of happy memories. ♥

— Susan Branch

Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young…

— Alison Gopnik

Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.

— Samuel Smiles