Childhood Quote by Ellen Glasgow

Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the reality of…

— Russell Baker

So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on…

— George Eliot

“As I held the family Bible in my hand and I could almost feel the joys and sorrows that connected me to the past.”

— Nancy B. Brewer

I earnestly feel terrible for any mistakes at the bank.

— Steve Mnuchin

You anticipate what I would say, though you cannot know how earnestly I say it, how earnestly I feel it, without knowing my secret…

— Charles Dickens

“It was one of the joys of childhood.”

— Markus Zusak

Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.

— Joyce Maynard

Up to one's last breath, one may retain the simple joys of childhood, the poetic ecstasies of the young person, the enthusiasms of maturity.…

— Eliphas Levi

“As I reached the door, the constable said, “Good luck in Canada, son.” For a second I expected his voice to morph into Uncle…

— Michael Wyndham Thomas

In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.

— Robert Breault

Some of my most vivid childhood memories involve cards: loud, energetic, often brutally competitive games of racing demon, played at high speed and in…

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

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