It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. Tom Robbins
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. Robertson Davies
One stops being a child when one realises that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better. Cesare Pavese
My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell. Igor Stravinsky
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. Marcel Proust
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children. Bill Watterson
The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. Mary Shelley
Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of. William Golding
The protected place in space and time that we once called childhood has grown shorter. Mary Pipher
I never meet anyone nowadays who admits to having had a happy childhood. Everyone appears to think happiness betokens a lack of sensitivity. Jessamyn West