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Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.

Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.

I do have a regular childhood.

Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

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.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time.