Appreciate Quote by Helen McCrory

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

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 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

One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes.

— Alexandre Dumas-fils

The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and Romans, and…

— David Elkind

When we raise our children, we relive our childhood. Forgotten memories, painful and pleasurable, rise to the surface.... So each of us thinks, almost…

— Anonymous

We like the idea of childhood but are not always crazy about the kids we know. We like it, that is, when we are…

— C. Sommerville

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

Childhood is the province of the imagination and when I immerse myself in it, I re-create it as it was, as it could have…

— Joyce Carol Oates

What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was…

— Anonymous

Childhood is pretty fantastic but every age has its moments of beauty.

— Helen Baxendale

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay