Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.
The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.
I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.
I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything.
'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.
There is no greater compliment for a writer than to have pleased a troubled child.
I had a mundane, happy childhood, without much struggle.
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
The older I get, the happier my childhood becomes.
Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.