The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
Bill Cosby

The events of childhood do not pass, but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.
Eleanor Farjeon

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.
Art Linkletter

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
Garrison Keillor

The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.
Dennis Potter

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.
John le Carre

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.
DeForest Kelley

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
Desiderius Erasmus

The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.
Jerry Only

The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American.
Lorna Luft

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.
Rebecca H. Davis

The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible.
Shannon Miller

The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.
Anselm Kiefer

The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.
Alison Bechdel

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
Barbara Ehrenreich

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.
Isaiah Berlin

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
E. B. White

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
Marcel Proust

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.
Cleveland Amory

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Graham Greene