Children Quote by Dick Francis

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

— 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

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

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

— Lena Dunham

A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.

— Anonymous

How different other families were, the shape of them, the things they presumed, the children that grew up in them.

— Margo Lanagan

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

“The child you once were lives on within you unchanged.”

— Bryant McGill

“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 They forget about it like a phone number that's no longer valid.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

Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.

— Carol Ann Duffy

Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral

— W. H. Auden