Quote by Jason Duncan

“The years return us gradually to the afflictions and shames of childhood, it is a curiosity of existence.”

— Sebastian Barry

“Contemplating the adolescence through which we scorned the wrong, some of us must wish … that we could be born old, and grow younger…

— Channing Pollock

“Pretty straightforwardly, the more categories of adversities a child suffers, the dimmer his or her chances of a happy, functional adulthood.45”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Childhood is a process of slowly recomposing oneself out of the borrowed materials of the world.”

— Nicole Krauss

“There was no quick and easy eradication of evil. There was only the passage of time, of generations, of people raising children who would…

— Erika Johansen

Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.

— Bill Watterson

“adult life is full of hardship, childhood should be free of it.”

— Geraldine Brooks

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of…

— Ambrose Bierce

“Forgetting the injustices and seeming injustices which one suffered from one’s parents during childhood and youth must be the major part of any maturing…

— Peter Taylor

“Evil lives in the dark. We instinctively know it as children, but as we grow older we allow reason to cloud our judgement”

— Charity Parkerson

“When the manipulations of childhood are a little larceny, they may grow and change with the child into qualities useful and admired in the…

— Leontine R. Young