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| “Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.” Pablo Neruda |
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| “So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be.” Robert Frost |
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| “What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?” Lin Yutang |
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| “Sister. She is your mirror, shining back at you with a world of possibilities. She is your witness, who sees you at your worst and best, and loves you anyway. She is your partner in crime, your midnight companion, someone who knows when you are smiling, even in the dark. She is your teacher, your defense attorney, your personal press agent, even your shrink. Some days, she's the reason you wish you were an only child.” Barbara Alpert |
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| “I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.” Mitch Albom |
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| “One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.” Jonathan Safran Foer |
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| "We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend" Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| “You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.” Frederick Buechner |
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| “You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.” Elizabeth Berg |
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| “These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart.” Pat Conroy |
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| “Well, one can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.” LM Montgomery |
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| “I know how syrupy this sounds, how dull, provincial, and possibly whitewashed, but what can I do? Happy childhoods happen” Marisa De Los Santos |
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| “Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people” Allen Beck |
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| “What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.” GK Chesterson |
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