childhood sayings, quotes and quotations

Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.
~quotes about childhood by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.
~inspirational sayings about Memory quotes by Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.
~childhood quotes by Cynthia Ozick

A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.
~famous quotes about Memory by Carol Shields

A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.
~childhood sayings by Marion C. Garretty

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.
~quotes about childhood by Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day.
~inspirational sayings about Childhood quotes by John Milton, Paradise Regained

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
~childhood quotes by Gaston Bachelard

Sweet childish days, that were as long,As twenty days are now.
~famous quotes about Childhood by William Wordsworth, To a Butterfly

And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses - would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories?
~childhood sayings by Rainer Maria Rilke

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
~quotes about childhood by George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860

The faintest waft is sometimes enough to induce feelings of hunger or anticipation, or to transport you back through time and space to a long-forgotten moment in your childhood. It can overwhelm you in an instant or simply tease you, creeping into your consciousness slowly and evaporating almost the moment it is detected.
~inspirational sayings about Memory quotes by Stephen Lacey, Scent in Your Garden, 1991{ being yourself quotes } { perfection sayings } { goodbye sayings } { spring quotes sayings } { heartache quote } { rest in peace sayings } { quotes or saying on smiles } { journalism quotes } { good luck quotes } { sayings about attitude } { great sayings about nurses } { quotes about grandchildren } { money quotes } { courage quotes } { weather sayings } { running sayings } { parenting quotes }