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