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Childhood Quotes - Page 43

To him who has thought, or done, or suffered much, the level days of his childhood seem at an immeasureable distance, far off as the age of chivalry, or as the line of Sesostris.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, Thomas Noon Talfourd, James Stephen (1854). “Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous: Critical and miscellaneous writings”, p.102

A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.

"Conversation: Tea Obreht, Author of ‘The Tiger’s Wife’". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. April 1, 2011.

The tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow.

Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.50, University of Toronto Press