Book Quote by Marcel Proust

“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we…

— Marcel Proust

“No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived are those that we had regarded as not being lived at all:…

— Marcel Proust

“I certainly couldn't have survived my childhood without books. All that deprivation and pain--abuse, broken home, a runaway sister, a brother with cancer--the books…

— Junot Díaz

“Perhaps I had missed a great deal, reading so continually and seeing the world through the windowpanes of books. But then, maybe not. If…

— Fred Chappell

“the days of the young, when they gulped the air and lived to see the better world, the grown-up world, when they could not…

— Paullina Simons

“And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a…

— Nicholas Sparks

“As much as childhood was the greatest thing that most of us have ever experienced, with it characterized by our care free attitude and…

— Njabulo P. Vilakazi

“...we should never grow so old, or change so much, that we cannot find room in our hearts for the wisdom of children's books.”

— Judith Viorst

“Anyone who survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his life.”

— Flannery O'Connor

“It is strange how, when a child, I always longed to be like grown-up people, and yet how I have often longed, since childhood’s…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Remember when we were children and life was simple; how I yearn to return to those days.”

— A.H. Septimius

“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things even as greater things crumbled. I could not…

— Neil Gaiman