Sayings about childhood/childhood memories?

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 Sweet childish days, that were as long As twenty days are now. ~William Wordsworth, "To a Butterfly" 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. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it. ~George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860 Childhood is the most beautiful of all life's seasons. ~Author Unknown Childhood is a promise that is never kept. ~Ken Hill 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, The Power and the Glory (thanks Harold) When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood. ~Sam Ewing In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com 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 If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. ~Tom Stoppard 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" It is never too late to have a happy childhood. ~Tom Robbins What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. ~Cynthia Ozick The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. ~John Milton, Paradise Regained Childhood is a short season. ~Helen Hayes He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast. ~Herbert Gold Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath. ~Author Unknown 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 Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes. ~Malcolm de Chazal