Children Quote by Ted Dekker

“I wonder if this is how it feels to grow old. Knowing that time is still passing but you’re no longer a part of…

— Ryan Galloway

“Childhood is what we spend the rest of our lives getting over”

— Kristi Pelton

“You don't just get over it. And it doesn't make any difference if you're supposedly a grown-up. It never goes away.”

— Sophie Kinsella

“We were still children, for all that we thought we weren’t. We were in that in-between place, the twilight between childish things and grown-up…

— Christina Henry

“Already my childhood seemed far away—a remote age, faded and bittersweet, like dried flowers. Did I regret its loss, did I want it back?…

— Margaret Atwood

“I felt that pressure of time that is perhaps the surest indication we have left childhood behind.”

— Gene Wolfe

“Well we have to. We have to remember everything. If we don’t, by the time we grow up it’ll be gone forever.”

— Isaac Marion

“It seems to me that childhood ends and adult life begins the moment you stop believing your parents can rescue you.”

— Julie Murphy

“My time was growing short. I could feel it. And I could see it in the sad, worn faces of those I passed by.…

— Loren Niva

“I think perhaps the adults we become are formed in childhood and there's no way around it.”

— John Boyne

“When you're young, you do think that things last for ever. Unfortunately, they don't.”

— Philip Pullman

“You see yourself as if old and wise. I see you really miss your childhood.”

— Toba Beta