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

You see yourself as if old and wise.
I see you really miss your childhood. — Toba Beta

Sum of life; Birth, childhood, youth, adulthood, parenthood, old age and death. — Lailah Gifty Akita

My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood. — Flea

The young remember most deeply ... When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly. — Dan Simmons

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. — Charles Lamb

My daughter loves stories about my childhood, and we both love discussing women's issues. She's a wise and mature ten-year-old. — Jeffrey Zeldman

They say that not matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood. — Karen White

True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age. — Sophie Swetchine

We were just old enough to be warped by childhood and just young enough not to realize it. — Chuck Klosterman

One Life With Many Names, Childhood, Boyhood, Manhood And Old, Then? Then! All Unknown, Uncertain Destination ... — Muhammad Imran Hasan

The old are in a second childhood. — Aristophanes

When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood. — Sam Ewing

A born-again Christian should no more think of going back to the old life than an adult to his childhood. — Billy Graham

A fat old man has disturbed my day, coming to tell me that he has sold my childhood to a museum in Cincinnati. — A.M. Homes

Old age is the new childhood. — Hanif Kureishi

Some one has said of a fine and honorable old age, that it was the childhood of immortality. — John Wolcot

The genius of life is to take the spirit of childhood into old age. — Aldous Huxley

When you are a child at home alone, you're afraid someone might come; when you are old and at home alone, you're afraid no one will come. — Ljupka Cvetanova

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old. — Christopher Morley

What a childhood I had - I was ten years old when I
found out Alpo was dog food. — Rodney Dangerfield

And my seven-year-old world humpty-dumptied, never to be put back together again. — Maya Angelou

Old age is but a second childhood. — Aristophanes

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. — Socrates

My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream to make films. — Tom Rachman

He was thirteen that year, the age when children splinter off and abandon the old loves. — Mark Costello

You know, I'm trying to sometimes sit down and write some stories about my childhood and maybe one when I'm an old lady put them out like a book. — Shelby Lynne

Lenny's face was smiling, too. For a minute they were both ten years old. Time travel in real life. — Lynne Rae Perkins

I may be a little like the grown-ups. I must have grown old. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Once we were young, now we are adult. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Love her as in childhood
Through feeble, old and grey.
For you'll never miss a mother's love
Till she's buried beneath the clay. — Frank McCourt

My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July. — Rick Bass

Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways. — Elie Wiesel

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. — C.M. Stunich

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. — Walter Savage Landor

What a childhood I had, why, when I took my first step, my old man tripped me! — Rodney Dangerfield

Twelve is the border between childhood and old. — Lindsay Eagar

Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old. — Joyce Maynard

I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old. — Sylvia Plath

Some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school ... — John Geddes

... because I was only eleven years old, I was wrapped in the best cloak of invisibility in the world. — Alan Bradley

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age. — Vera Nazarian

And the nightmare-monster of her childhood revealed itself to be a thing of old clothes stuffed with straw. — Mercedes Lackey

Resting on the roots of this old oak I lean back against his knotted trunk, shine my granny smith on my sleeve And ponder the days ... — Kellie Elmore

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality. — Pindar

He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life. — Ray Bradbury

Old age is second childhood. — Aristophanes

Parent may hinder their children's marriage; but children cannot interfere with the insane acts of their parents in their second childhood. — Honore De Balzac

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age. — Jose Rizal

They soon stopped being ten years old. But whatever age they were seemed to be exactly the right age for having fun. — Maud Hart Lovelace

I never felt more free in this world, than when I was five years old — Jeremy Aldana

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew. — Ian McEwan

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents. — Sherman Alexie

I am much more powerful today than the old programs and mind viruses that I absorbed in my childhood. — Wayne Dyer

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.