Quote: Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
Author: Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''
Quote: But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.
Author: Louise Bogan 1897-1970, American Poet, Critic
Quote: There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Author: Deepak Chopra East-Indian- American M.D., New Age Author, Lecturer
Quote: Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
Author: Leonard Cohen 1934-, Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer
Quote: What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
Author: Meister Eckhart 1260-1326 AD, German Mystic
Quote: Childhood is a disease -- a sickness that you grow out of.
Author: William Golding 1911-1993, British Author
Quote: Let a man turn to his own childhood -- no further -- if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.
Author: Alice Meynell 1847-1922, British Poet, Essayist
Quote: Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
Author: Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892-1950, American Poet
Quote: The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
Author: John Milton 1608-1674, British Poet
Quote: What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
Author: Pablo Picasso 1881-1973, Spanish Artist
Quote: There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
Author: Marcel Proust 1871-1922, French Novelist
Quote: The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived.
Author: Howard Pyle
Quote: Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
Author: William M. Thackeray 1811-1863, Indian-born British Novelist
Quote: Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?
Author: Thomas Traherne 1636-1674, British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic
Quote: I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.
Author: Thornton Wilder 1897-1975, American Novelist, Playwright
Quote: That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
Author: Virginia Woolf 1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist
Quote: Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.
Author: William Wordsworth 1770-1850, British Poet