Childhood… the best time of our life, which passes away before we even know it. When we are small, we are all so eager to grow up… but when we do grow up, we realize what we had. It’s that amazing time of our life when our biggest worries were class tests, biggest fear was a bully at school, and biggest joy was daddy taking us to McDonald’s (well maybe not McDonald’s specifically, but you get my point). Some great person has said that nothing stays forever. Well, childhood is surely one of those things which would top the list. Play all day out on the fields with friends, return home like a swine, mommy is always there to wash you up, studying, tv, videogames, and sleep. Wish the world would be that simple forever. No tension, no worries. But the fact is that, childhood is just your orientation into a new world, and sadly, orientation doesn’t last forever. But nevertheless, being adults, what we can do to cherish those moments of childhood is to see them and re-live them in some other child of today.
“There is a garden in every childhood,
an enchanted place where colors are brighter,
the air softer,
and the morning more fragrant than ever again.”
~ Elizabeth Lawrence
“Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights,
before the dark hour of reason grows.”
~ John Betjeman (Summoned By Bells)
“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had
had no childhood in it.”
~ George Eliot (The Mill On The Floss)
“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
“Childhood is the most beautiful of all life’s seasons.”
~ Author Unknown
“Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down
to essentials and that essential shaped for good.”
~ Katherine Anne Porter
“There is always one moment in childhood
when the door opens and lets the future in.”
~ Graham Greene
“I had always thought that once you grew up you
could do anything you wanted – stay up all night or
eat ice cream straight out of the container.”
~ Bill Bryson
“When you finally go back to your old hometown,
you find it wasn’t the old home you missed but your childhood.”
~ Sam Ewing
“Childhood is that wonderful time of life when
all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.”
~ Author Unknown
“The greatest poem ever known
Is one all poets have outgrown:
The poetry, innate, untold,
Of being only four years old.”
~ Christopher Morley (To A Child)
“Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives
when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?”
~ Louis de Bernières (Captain Corelli’s Mandolin)
“The childhood shows the man
As morning shows the day.”
~ John Milton (Paradise Regained)
“If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.”
~ Tom Stoppard
“It is never too late to have a happy childhood.”
~ Tom Robbins
“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)
