Childhood Quote by Mary Quant

Childhood lasts all through life.

— Gaston Bachelard

“It was not always the case that a large minority comprising the weakest members of society wore special clothes, were freed from the routines…

— Ian McEwan

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 lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within…

— Gaston Bachelard

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

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 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

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

— Nicole Krauss

Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.

— Bill Watterson

“Childhood feels so permanent,”

— Jonathan Tropper

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 is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value to the…

— Jonathan Kozol