Adult life Quote by Gaston Bachelard

Childhood lasts all through life.

— Gaston Bachelard

“Childhood feels so permanent,”

— Jonathan Tropper

Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin,…

— Jonathan Tropper

Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh…

— Eugene Ionesco

Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is…

— Cesare Pavese

Childhood, at its best, is a perpetual adventure, in the truest sense of that overtaxed word: a setting forth into trackless lands that might…

— Michael Chabon

“Childhood is what we spend the rest of our lives getting over”

— Kristi Pelton

I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood.

— Umberto Eco

Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh…

— Eugene Ionesco

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 the one story that stands by itself in every soul.

— Ivan Doig

Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.

— Anonymous