There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking along.

It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.

Childhood shows the man as morning shows the day.

For whose sake does it exist? For the sake of the little ones Of all places, of all times ...

I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my little child.

I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.

The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.

The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause things to happen in the world.

Our children, my love are little ghosts I hear them laughing in the garden I listen to them playing in the empty room the little ghosts the children we never had and those we'll never have.

My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected to it to hell.

The dominant expression of a child is gravity.

As for childhood being carefree, I know from my own experience that black care can sit behind us even on our rocking-horses.

Childhood may have periods of great happiness, but it also has times that must simply be endured. Childhood at its best is a form of slavery tempered by affection.

I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except in fine weather.

Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.

Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up very fast but not very far. That is why it is possible for fourteen-year-olds now to establish friendships with twenty-six-year-olds - because they know by the age of fourteen all they are ever going to know.

The illusions of childhood are necessary experiences: a child should not be denied a balloon just because an adult knows that sooner or later it will burst.

If you can't hold children in your arms, please hold them in your hearts.