Children Quote by Michael Ondaatje

“We must experience certain things in life, even in our childhood, so we can later look back and value the journey.”

— Tanya R. Liverman

“All children, as long as they still live in the mystery, are continuously occupied in their souls with the only thing that is important,…

— Hermann Hesse

“life is not an echo, endlessly returning the past to us so that we might read and reread in its fading variations the meanings…

— John Burnham Schwartz

“The words spoken over our lives from childhood manifest into the adults we become”

— Vese Aghoghovbia Aladewolu

I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood.

— Umberto Eco

“Memories particularly of when they weren’t being what parents are nine-tenths of the time, the taskmasters, the examples, the moral authorities, the nags of…

— Philip Roth

“Memories of our childhood are like images painted on a wet canvas, they merge until they lose all shape, often remaing only as feelings.”

— Brian Mynott

“Childhood feels so permanent,”

— Jonathan Tropper

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

— Sebastian Barry

“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

“Our childhood is too brief to fill it with activities that stifle our spirit and rob our joy.”

— Richard Blackaby

“Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.”

— Heather O'Neill