Childhood Quote by Rosamond Lehmann

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 like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.

— Samuel Smiles

“Childhood is a human water, a water which comes out of the shadows. This childhood in the mists and glimmers, this life in the…

— Gaston Bachelard

Kids need to see their world reflected back to them.

— Lauren Myracle

Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh…

— Eugene Ionesco

Many children grow through adolescence with no ripples whatever and land smoothly and predictably in the adult world with both feet on the ground.…

— Stella Chess

Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries…

— Gaston Bachelard

As people grow and evolve, we still are the experiences that we had in our childhood, but they shape us in different ways.

— Amanda Schull

The role you've been ascribed in childhood can twist or break apart or seem outgrown, especially when you have your own family and begin…

— Maggie O'Farrell

The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your childhood.

— John Dufresne

I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

— Daniel Craig

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

— Nicole Krauss