Quotes About Toys

#1. Peter was 2 years and 10 months old when we began to study him. He was afraid of a white rat, and this fear extended to a rabbit, a fur coat, a feather, cotton wool, etc., but not to wooden blocks and similar toys.

Mary C. Jones

#2. I pause to catch my breath, looking around at all the toys he's paid for and never once enjoyed with his son.

Nicola Kraus

#3. And whatever people might say about the time having come when young people must arrange their future for themselves, she could not believe it any more than she could believe that loaded pistols could ever be the best toys for five-year-old children.

Leo Tolstoy

#4. It's like the television equivalent of one of those cymbal-banging monkey toys being duct-taped to your forehead.

Matthew Norman

#5. God simply faded into the background like our toys, into the distant past. And the memories of Sunday roasts with pudding and custard.

Abigail George

#6. Bath toys are reserved only for the oldest, more lethal vampires.

Jeaniene Frost

#7. Financial Security is not enough money to buy toys. That is to learn to live with less money than you earn. So, you can help other individuals or investors. You are not a winner until done it

Dave Ramsey

#8. Father, I want to know Thee, but my coward heart fears to give up its toys.

A.W. Tozer

#9. Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.

Nick Park

#10. I have a huge Lego collection - I have a really big Lego collection. We're talking pretty darn large. I also have a huge collection of original stainless steel Thomas the Tank Engine train toys. Beautiful little trains; they're my favorite thing in the world.

Callan McAuliffe

#11. Sophistication isn't what you wear or who you know, or pushing people down to get you where you want to go ... soon your gonna find stealing other people toys on the playground won't make you many friends ...

Taylor Swift

#12. Today's toys contain computer chips, so they can move and talk; this stimulates the mind of your child. Notice I say "your child." MY child just wants to eat the toys.

Dave Barry

#13. Did he open the wrong... "Probably shouldna opened all those drawers," Blake carries on, rubbing his chin. "Ya can't unsee some of those toys. But everybody has to have his own kinda fun.

Sarina Bowen

#14. My inclination during sex always is to use sex toys. That's not something men are often used to.

Margaret Cho

#15. I couldn't understand why Frank would want to spend time with this crowd. They were bored, naughty children with highballs and morphine and sex for their toys. People were toys, too.

Paula McLain

#16. We are at the tail end of a decline in infant mortality that began just over a century ago. Babies no longer wander into open hearths or are mauled by marauding pigs. We have vaccines, lead-free educational toys, diapers that can sop up a typhoon. But we have never been more worried.

Nicholas Day

#17. I'm like a Happy Meal without the toy."
Liam gave him an incredulous look. "Are you kidding? You're like a Happy Meal with two toys.

K.A. Merikan

#18. She once led this secret uprising to switch the voice boxes of Barbies and G.I. Joes. When they hit the shelves, G.I. Joe said, 'Let's go shopping!' and Barbie said, 'The enemy must be overtaken.'
I laugh. "No way."
"Yes way. Sex-role stereotyping in children's toys, all that.

Deb Caletti

#19. It's very easy to make insects move. Because they do move mechanically without the rippling of flesh as you mentioned. They move more like real tinker toys and you can make models of them quite easily.

Michael O'Donoghue

#20. We didn't have money for toys, so I made my own.

Willard Wigan

#21. They [zebras] looked like highly varnished animated toys.

Elspeth Huxley

#22. Collecting and hoarding seem to be about the loss of others, while philanthropy and de-accessioning are more about the impending loss of self. (Whoever dies with the most toys actually loses.)

Douglas Coupland

#23. Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand.

Herman Wouk

#24. Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.

Gordon R. Dickson

#25. There is no entanglement where there is truth, and where there is no truth, there is entanglement of playing with 'toys' (interaction with people).

Dada Bhagwan

#26. No divine terror will ever be found in the work of the man who wastes a colossal strength in elaborating toys; for the first lesson that terror is sent to teach us is, the value of the human soul, and the shortness of mortal time.

John Ruskin

#27. You'd never get tired of a pony. It's a classic. It's, like, the Chanel jacket of toys.

Sophie Kinsella

#28. The Spoonsize Boys steal the dollhouse toys while the cat by the fire is curled. Then away they floats in their eggshell boats, down the drains to their underground world.

Tim Powers

#29. Toys R Us is closing its FAO Schwarz store on Fifth Avenue in New York City, citing the high cost of running the retail space in that location, the company said Friday. It is seeking another Manhattan space.

Anonymous

#30. There are a lot of Christians who are halfway fellows. They stand in the door, holding on to the Church with one hand while they play with the toys of the world with the other. They are in the doorway and we can't bring sinners in.

Mordecai Ham

#31. When I was three years old, I had race-car wallpaper, a race-car bed, race-car toys. That was all I wanted. And nothing has changed. Except I don't have a race-car bed anymore.?

Joey Logano

#32. They should let my son be Federal Reserve chairman. At least he'll play with his toys and not ruin the economy.

Peter D. Schiff

#33. 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

#34. My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.

Frida Kahlo

#35. I really didn't like 'Done With Mirrors.' I really didn't like 'Just Push Play.' Then there are other records I really think were good for their time, like 'Toys and Rocks.'

Joe Perry

#36. If sisters were free to express how they really feel, parents would hear this: "Give me all the attention and all the toys and send Rebecca to live with Grandma."

Linda Sunshine

#37. We have a new generation of very rich people who want to do more with their money than buy a lot of expensive toys. They want to live meaningful lives.

Peter Singer

#38. I'm very excited to see the wonderful 2-D characters in Poptropica come to life in the form of 3-D toys. When I first held the characters in my hands, it felt like magic. I'm excited for kids to have the same feeling!

Jeff Kinney

#39. The other day, I noticed I'd arranged my spices in alphabetical order when I was on the phone, without even realizing, and when I was a kid I was constantly cleaning and organizing things - my toys, my sister's cosmetics.

Jayma Mays

#40. they have all been taught, possessiveness about our cozy corners and favorite toys isn't limited to cats and dogs. How we wish it were. Wouldn't life be simpler?

Margaret Atwood

#41. Guns aren't toys! They're for family protection, hunting dangerous or delicious animals, and keeping the King of England out of your face!

Homer

#42. We will no longer be led only by that half of the population whose socialization, through toys, games, values and expectations, sanctions violence as the final assertion of manhood, synonymous with nationhood.

Wilma Scott Heide

#43. The tears were back, stinging just behind my eyes. There was blood all over my penguins. I didn't give a damn about the walls and carpet. They could be replaced, but I'd collected those damned stuffed toys over years.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#44. Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes a sound when you jump on it.

Stephen Baker

#45. I do not miss my toys. I wouldn't play with them anyway. I am fifteen. I miss my childhood.

Jo Walton

#46. Welcome to the world of misfit toys.

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#47. How could I compete with that? Candies and toys! I had string and glue and some very complicated dynamics going on at my station. I mean, when I was assigned to that table, no one happened to mention that it was a simmering hotbed of political unrest concerning the lower case r. A wicked web indeed.

Laurie Notaro

#48. I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.

Rick Springfield

#49. That's my gun," Ty said in an offended voice. "They hid my gun in the sex toys? That's not right, man.

Madeleine Urban

#50. Guys never really get over their toys.

Michael Keaton

#51. He lived in a giant skycastle with lots of toys and many

Breaking Burgh

#52. It had worked. She understood. Things can kill you. All kinds of things, like toys, or older brothers. And as she'd grown up, that list had just gotten longer and longer.

Laini Taylor

#53. I was lucky that my mom never did that boy/girl toys thing. If I wanted it, she would get it for me.

Cassie Brode

#54. You often hear this about directors, how it's like having the best set of toys. This fabulous train set, the biggest box of toys that a kid could possibly have. The best directors look like a kid having more fun than you're supposed to have.

William Sadler

#55. My mum would like to see me on the cover of 'Good Housekeeping' demonstrating children's toys with some nice lipstick on.

Tracey Ullman

#56. As a company dedicated to creating fun and affordable toys for children, everyone at Ty is proud to play a small part in helping children in need have a happy holiday. We are proud to be associated with Toys for Tots and congratulate our Marines for a job well done.

Ty Warner

#57. His optimism blinded her. He was full of plans. "I have an idea!" he said often. She imagined him as a child surrounded by too many brightly colored toys, always being encouraged to carry out "projects", always being told that his mundane ideas were wonderful.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#58. Toys "R" Us. Zack put on a wool cap and sunglasses.
"You look like a bank robber," I observed.
"No toy is safe.

Joan Bauer

#59. In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

Christopher Lasch

#60. Either that's your mobile buzzing in your room, or there're sex toys you haven't told us about having a party in there without you."

~ Josh Larsen

J.A. Belfield

#61. I'm simply the mom who makes the lunch, drives to school, finds where the toys are, washes the clothes, and I'm here to play. And that's all I should be.

Sandra Bullock

#62. I have gone above and beyond to care for my child, including an agreed upon monthly stipend, a house, a car, insurance, school and other essentials for the baby and his mother as well as many other things, including toys and clothing.

Robinson Cano

#63. I wasn't the kid who lined up her toys, although when it came to Barbies and that little traveling wardrobe with the drawers and the little shoes, my stuff was always on hangers and the shoes were always in pairs. Things had their places.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#64. Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.

Patricia Marx

#65. There's nothing serious in mortality;
All is but toys; renown, and grace, is dead;
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of.

William Shakespeare

#66. There's nothing depraved about sex. Of course with a little creativity, some toys and a whole lot of dirty talk, you can change that.

Suzanne Wrightt

#67. The things that I've enjoyed most are not really science fiction. They are not much fun to make because there are so many toys involved. They are fun for directors who like toys, like Ridley Scott, but they are not a lot of fun to make. A lot of hanging around, changing this and that.

John Hurt

#68. 90% of toys are made in china, which technically makes the chinese elves

Sean Lock

#69. Adults spend $500 billion on games and leisure activity each year, and some adults lament that kids get $15 billion for toys.

Brian Sutton-Smith

#70. I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book.

Laurence Olivier

#71. Our confidence needs to come from within, not without. From the quality of our hearts, not the quantity of things we own. After all, he who dies with the most toys ... still dies.

Sean Covey

#72. We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

Eric Hoffer

#73. A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings but of mechanical toys.

Mary Lascelles

#74. Sometime in the early Seventies, gender-free toys were briefly a popular idea. So at Christmas on the California beach in 1972, we downplayed the dolls with frilly dresses and loaded up Santa's sack with toy trucks and earth movers for our three daughters.

Tom Brokaw

#75. SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet full of fetish clothes, or a basement filled with bondage furniture.

Patrick Califia-Rice

#76. Every day some scientist discovered a new species of frog or waterlily, and that, too, seemed to confirm some divine showman, some celestial inventor putting new toys before us, hidden but hidden poorly, just where we might happen upon them.

Dave Eggers

#77. Girls are not only being denied access to scientific and adventurous toys, they're also presented with such a narrow range of options that domesticity and stereotypically "female" duties are shoved down their throats before they've even reached the age of five.

Laura Bates

#78. The more I pursue God, the more I realize that he is inherently different from us. He does not protect his possessions and hoard his toys. He does not look for
ways to make us jealous of him, though he, the God Most High, is jealous for us.

John D. Richardson

#79. We've been trained to spend money since we were born with all these commercials with toys and G.I. Joes and Transformers. But there's so many things in the supermarket, there's so many things on television that automatically, when you turn it on, are saying, 'Buy! Buy! Buy! Buy! Buy! Buy! Buy!'

Donald Faison

#80. I was always dressing up as a kid in the backyard, building some sort of fort and having battles against imaginary enemies. It's often that same feeling when you're pretending for a living, but it's with bigger toys.

Jai Courtney

#81. I'm a big kid. I never lost my childlike appreciation of things. Too many people lock it out and throw their toys away and say, okay, I'm gonna grow up and be grumpy and miserable and not think about the magical side of things anymore
and I can't seem to stop doing that.

Andy Partridge

#82. In the end it seems we're just toys, easy to break and hard to mend.

Mark Lawrence

#83. Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#84. I've been putting together the story with Rob and putting all the details of it together and looking at all the various designs they have for the toys and stuff, it's pretty exciting.

Nicholas Stoller

#85. The Mexican ... is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.

Octavio Paz

#86. Old post cards, tin wind-up toys with rusted gears, buttons long out of fashion, ticket stubs found in a shoebox in the attic - these are the things Alice likes, not new stuff that comes sealed in plastic.

Jan Strnad

#87. Welcome to the island of misfit toys

Stephen Chbosky

#88. You try to be young, maybe you like to have a few toys, but it's not the most important thing in life.

Diego Della Valle

#89. I love doing big movies. It's awesome! You have all these toys. The thing I like about this movie is, like they always say, directors have the biggest train sets! Don't tell anyone, but I'd do this for free.

Michael Bay

#90. If a woman's in my bed, it's because I want her there. I'm not a child who gets bored with his toys after five minutes. If the guys you've been with treat you like that, then you've been screwing round with boys. Would't you rather fuck a man?

Chanel Cleeton

#91. We lived in a farm village, and no one could afford to buy a car or to fly. We were envious. We couldn't afford any toys. I couldn't imagine making a real car.

Li Shufu

#92. My parents didn't like me. For bathtub toys they gave me a blender and a transistor radio.

Rodney Dangerfield

#93. There are no major cities I haven't been in - at least once. I'd be just as happy not to go out of town for a couple of months and play with toys.

F. Lee Bailey

#94. Some of the films that I have really enjoyed include: The Fifth Element, The Crow, Toys, Seven, Forrest Gump, The Lion King, 12 Monkeys, Doctor Zhivago, Being There, and Trainspotting.

Frederick Lenz

#95. Ideas are not intellectuals' toys: ideas have consequences, for good and for ill, in what even intellectuals sometimes call "the real world".

George Weigel

#96. I'm more into the Spawn toys. They're really cool. They're coming out with a Techno Spawn series and another series, The Dark Ages, which are really cool.

Jason Mewes

#97. No matter how many toys we amass we leave them behind when we die, just as we leave a broken environment, an economy that only benefits the richest, and a legacy of empowering greed over goodness. It is now time to commit to following a new path.

John Perkins

#98. To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys in his head that reading can give him, and you hook him into science fiction, then you've got the future secured.

Ray Bradbury

#99. You belong with us, the lost of the lost, the tribe without a home, a tribe of orphans living our abandoned lives amid toys and trinkets, stuffed monkeys and bears. You're one of us now - the Tribe of the Teddy Bear. From Tribe of the Teddy Bear

J. Joseph Wright

#100. Why do I suddenly feel like I'm on the Island of Misfit Toys?

Allison Pang