(47 votes)   Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

William M. Thackeray
1811-1863, Indian-born British Novelist

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(40 votes)   Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.

William Wordsworth
1770-1850, British Poet

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(38 votes)   Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
1892-1950, American Poet

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(31 votes)   Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.

Leonard Cohen
1934-, Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer

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(29 votes)   The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

John Milton
1608-1674, British Poet

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(23 votes)   The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived.

Howard Pyle

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