Quotes on Childhood Memories

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'

If you're lucky enough to fall in love, that's one thing. Otherwise all that was ever truly beautiful to me was boyhood. It's the meal we sup on for the rest of our lives. Love puts the icing on life. But if you don't find it...you must call on your childhood memories over and over till you do.

Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.

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

Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

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

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images harbored in memory since childhood. These memories which live by the image and in virtue of the image become, at certain times of our lives and particularly during the quiet age, the origin and matter of a complex reverie: the memory dreams, and reverie remembers.

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

The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...