Alice Meynell Childhood Quotations

Let a man turn to his own childhood -- no further -- if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

In childhood we all have ... a far higher sensibility for April and April evenings - a heartache for them, which in riper years is gradually and irretrievably consoled.

Childhood is but change made gay and visible ...