[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in

Whatever we know as children, this is the world, eaten whole and without question.

Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.

Harry was a bright boy. And like many bright boys, he had a little mischief in him.

Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.

The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them

Flawed Human Parents + Shit Life Throws At You = Childhood That 'Builds Character.

I miss those childish days of long ago, when one day was as long as twenty are now ...

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

He was thirteen that year, the age when children splinter off and abandon the old loves.

There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.