Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.
Donna Brazile

Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.
Hakeem Olajuwon

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.
Bill Bryson

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.
Louise Bogan

But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.
David Gest

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!
Max Muller

Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
William Golding

Childhood is a promise that is never kept.
Ken Hill

Childhood is a short season.
Helen Hayes

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.
George Will

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.
John Betjeman

Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Childhood is the sleep of reason.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
Lydia M. Child

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.
Bob Filner

Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.
David Leavitt

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.
Anna Jameson

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

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.
Mariska Hargitay