Quotes: Children

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 -

Sweet childish days, that were as long
As twenty days are now.

- William Wordsworth, "To a Butterfly" -

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 -

There is always a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

- Graham Green -

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

- Hodding Carter -

To a child love is spelled time.

- Unknown -

I thought I knew what love was until a child got into my heart.

- Unknown -

A hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in or the kind of car I drove. But the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.

- Forest E. Witcraft -

Play is the work of childhood.

- Unknown -