Age Quote by John Ruskin

The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous. Invariably, it…

— Alice Miller

Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.

— J. G. Holland

“Childhood feels so permanent,”

— Jonathan Tropper

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

Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing.

— Eugene Ionesco

“In childhood, you long to grow up fast because older people are more powerful, young men more powerful. A child just longs to grow…

— Osho

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

— Nicole Krauss

Childhood, with all its mirth, Youth, Manhood, Age that draws us to the ground, And last, Man's Life on earth, Glide to thy dim…

— William Cullen Bryant

“Childhood is short and maturity is forever.”

— Calvin

“Childhood love can endure but childhood promises are hard to keep.”

— Barry Walsh

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?

— Mitch Albom

I believe that the experience of childhood is irretrievable. All that remains, for any of us, is a headful of brilliant frozen moments, already…

— Penelope Lively