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Childhood (being a child) is a broad term usually applied to the phase of development in humans between infancy and adulthood. In many countries there is an age of majority when childhood ends and a person legally becomes an adult. The age can range anywhere from 12 to 21, with 18 being the most common. In recent years there has been a rapid growth of interest in the sociological study of childhood. Reaching on a large body of contemporary sociological and anthropological research, people have... full article at wikipedia

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Me and Jeshua	Eleanor Spence
The Work of Human Hands	G. Wayne Miller
Wood of the cradle, wood of the Cross	Caryll Houselander
The Little Way of the Infant Jesus	Caryll Houselander
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That great Cathedral space which was childhood.	Virginia Woolf
Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?	Thomas Traherne
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.	Deepak Chopra
I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.	Thornton Wilder
Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.	Ambrose Bierce
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
Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.	William Wordsworth
What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.	Meister Eckhart
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.	Edna St. Vincent Millay
The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.	John Milton
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