Back Quote by Dick Francis

THE KNOWN CHILD I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers…

— Dick Francis

Childhood is the purest state. The pure of heart never leave it behind. Their life merely takes them on a cirtuitous route away from,…

— Darren Shan

You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you…

— Meg Wolitzer

Most people put their childhood away as if it was an old hat. They forget it as if it was a phone number that…

— Erich Kastner

When I was growing up in the Forties and Fifties, you could hide your children from the difficulties of life, but today you can't…

— Michael Morpurgo

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

I think some people are really connected to who they were as children. And some people aren't.

— Lena Dunham

Rather than dwelling on the past, we should make the most of today, of the here and now, doing all we can to provide…

— Thomas S. Monson

Maybe I didn't have the childhood people think you should have, but I still went through the ages; I was still a child.

— Taylor Momsen

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.

— Kingsley Amis

“Some people discard their childhood like an old hat. They forget about it like a phone number that's no longer valid. They used to…

— Anonymous

One of the most painful things in the Western States and Territories is the extinction of childhood. I have never seen any children -…

— Isabella Bird