The greatest poem ever known

Is one all poets have outgrown:

The poetry, innate, untold,

Of being only four years old.

- Christopher Morley, To a Child

Childhood is a promise that is never kept. - Ken Hill

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. - Tom Stoppard

I'd give all wealth that years have piled,

The slow result of Life's decay,

To be once more a little child

For one bright summer day.

- Lewis Carroll, "Solitude"

It is never too late to have a happy childhood. - Tom Robbins

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. - Cynthia Ozick

The childhood shows the man

As morning shows the day.

- John Milton, Paradise Regained

Childhood is a short season. - Helen Hayes

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast. - Herbert Gold

Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath. - Author Unknown

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give. - Ellen Glasgow

Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes. - Malcolm de Chazal