Top 27 Quotes About Childhood Toys
#1. Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.
Neil Gaiman
#2. At long last I have discovered that most shooters are not interested in firearms as tools, but rather as toys. Such people do not acquire their weapons because of what they will do, but rather to gratify the "Christmas morning joy" that we largely left behind in our childhood.
Jeff Cooper
#3. I had a happy childhood, with many stimulations and support from my parents who, in postwar times, when it was difficult to buy things, made children's books and toys for us. We had much freedom and were encouraged by our parents to do interesting things.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
#4. What I do for a living puts me in the spotlight.
Ali Larter
#5. I'm generally interested in what people believe and what works for them, what gives them hope, what inspires them, no matter what it is.
Kali Hawk
#6. An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#7. What I have got from my childhood aren't toys, but memories. And happy memories are better than any toy.
River Phoenix
#8. No one ever forgets a toy that made him or her supremely happy as a child, even if that toy is replaced by one like it that is much nicer.
Stephen King
#9. Common sense used to be a great trait for one to have, and hence the name, common it was plentiful. Today's it's as rare as the Dodo bird.
M.A. Bookout
#10. Building up arms is not a substitute for diplomacy.
Samuel Pisar
#11. The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.
Anselm Kiefer
#12. So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with.
Ruben Blades
#13. I had a deprived childhood, you see. I had lots of other kids to play with and my parents bought me outdoor toys and refused to ill-treat me, so it never occurred to me to seek solitary consolation with a good book.
Terry Pratchett
#14. It was like something lurking in the darkness within him ... There is remained in the darkness, the great pain, tearing him at times, and then being silent.
D.H. Lawrence
#15. I do not miss my toys. I wouldn't play with them anyway. I am fifteen. I miss my childhood.
Jo Walton
#16. The stirrings of morality emerge early in childhood. Toddlers spontaneously offer toys and help to others and try to comfort people they see in distress.
Steven Pinker
#17. You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you read when you were little - the innocence that you are able to maintain because you have to find that again in order to connect with your child keeps you in a special state of mind.
Idina Menzel
#18. I feel safer with a Pyrrho than with a Saint Paul, for a jesting wisdom is gentler than an unbridled sanctity.
Emil Cioran
#19. There were no toys under the bed
that wasn't why he liked it. Why he liked it was that there wasn't anything under the bed
no chickens, no Joey, no Eloise, no sheep, no "no"s. He could lie under the bed and not be told anything at all
Jane Smiley
#21. I loved my childhood. They had the coolest toys back then. Star Wars, Transformers, laser-tag gun sets. Toy companies have really gone downhill.
Jon Heder
#22. Father never approved of my toys
Saw them as child's playthings
I was a child
They were my world
I ruled there
And he stepped on them
Destroying them
And in turn
Destroyed me
I should have been left to play
Now I must step on everything
T.P. Louise
#23. Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss. Out of sight is out of mind, but somewhere deep inside you know they still exist. And you also know that you're avoiding them.
Jodi Picoult
#24. I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!
Marilyn Monroe
#25. If you think that the intifada in France is about housing, go and try covering the story wearing a yarmulka .
Christopher Hitchens
#26. O I never thought that joys would run away from boys,
Or that boys would change their minds and forsake such summer joys;
But alack I never dreamed that the world had other toys
John Clare
#27. Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
Martial
