“The events of childhood do not pass, but repeat themselves like seasons of the year”
Eleanor Farjeon
“There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood”
Beryl Bainbridge
“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.”
Sigmund Freud
“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
“I spent my whole childhood going, 'Oh my God... All right, fine. I may be attracted to women, but I can't be a lesbian. I like Laura Ashley polished cottons! And I throw like a girl! And I cry for no apparent reason all the time! Oh my God, I'm a gay man!'”
Vickie Shaw
“People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.”
Bill Watterson
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