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There is a garden in every childhood, an
enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and
the morning more fragrant than ever again. - Elizabeth
Lawrence
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights,
before the dark hour of reason grows. - John Betjeman, Summoned
by Bells
Sweet childish days, that were as long
As twenty days are now.
- William Wordsworth, "To a Butterfly"
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the
idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the
sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. - Ambrose
Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no
childhood in it. - George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss,
1860
Childhood is the most beautiful of all life's seasons. -
Author Unknown
Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down
to essentials and that essential shaped for good. - Katherine
Anne Porter
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens
and lets the future in. - Deepak Chopra
When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it
wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood. - Sam
Ewing
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