Toys Quotes - Page 2

• I was one of those kids who took apart their toys to see how they work, just to see what they were made up of.

  Chad Hurley

  Kids, Made

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• The child's toys and the old man's reasons are the fruits of two seasons.

  William Blake

  Children, Men, Two

  William Blake (1868). “Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul”, p.99

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• If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

  Tom Robbins

  Educational, Brain, Littles

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.130, Bantam

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• A child can have too many toys, but never
  enough books.

  Jarrett J. Krosoczka

  Children, Book, Enough

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• Man must be happy, as happy as a poor child cheerfully playing with his poor toy!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Children, Men, Poor

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• I like to do nice things for my grandchildren - like buy them those toys I've always wanted to play with.

  Gene Perret

  Nice, Grandmother, Grandchildren

  Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

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• Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Husband, Dad, Father

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Girl, Boys, Men

  'A Child's Garden of Verses' (1885) 'Looking Forward'

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• Don't take your toys inside just because it's raining.

  Cher

  Rain, Scrapbooking

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• How then shall they have the play-games you allow them, if none must be bought for them?" I answer, they should make them themselves, or at least endeavour it, and set themselves about it. ...And if you help them where they are at a stand, it will more endear you to them than any chargeable toys that you shall buy for them.

  John Locke

  Games, Play, Answers

  John Locke, John Milton (1830). “Some thoughts concerning education”, p.166

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• Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

  Robert Burton

  Friendship, Old Friends, Enemy

  Robert Burton (1924). “The Anatomy of Melancholy ... in Three Partitions with Their Several Sections, Members & Subsections, Philosopically, Medicinally & Subsections, Philosopically, Medicinally, Historically Opened & Cut Up by Democritus Junior (Robert Burton) with a Satirical Pref. Conducing to the Following Discourse”

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• I'm putting all my money in the Chinese toy market.

  Warren Buffett

  Chinese

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• One time my mom tried to send me to my room for a time-out when I was 5 or 6, and I was like, "Fine! I like my room! All my imagination and toys are in my room!" I will never forget that. And she will never forget that.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Mom, Imagination, Rooms

  Interview With Sarah Paulson, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2012.

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• Sports is the toy department of life.

  George Will

  Sports, Department

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• A lot of times when I buy a lot of toys, I get a little jealous and keep one or two for myself. So I've got a couple of drones. I've got a couple of remote-control cars. I like to have fun

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Couple, Fun, Jealous

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• Always remember that true happiness is not in getting what you want, but wanting what you already have. He who dies with the most toys is still dead. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Opposites, Getting What You Want

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• I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

  Bernard Manning

  Funny, Birthday, Christmas

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• I don't go for very handsome men. Like they say in England, toy boys break too easily.

  Eartha Kitt

  Boys, Men, Handsome

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.

  Tablo

  Daughter, Feelings, Buying

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• Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Giants, Machines

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• I will tell you that the ego in me would love to play the lead. I would have loved to have been Buzz Lightyear, or Woody in "Toy Story," "Toy Story 2" but they hire celebrities for that, well-known people.

  Bob Bergen

  Play, People, Ego

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• I've always been into toys and kits and models. I'm kind of a toy nerd.

  Ed Helms

  Nerd, Kind, Models

  "Q&A: Ed Helms on Nerdom and How He Almost Destroyed His Hands for Mumford & Sons". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. September 6, 2013.

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• I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Science, Parent

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You toyed with my heart, like it was a toy heart. (Lisa Simpson)

  Matt Groening

  Heart, My Heart

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• You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, and— Just tired. So am I.

  e. e. cummings

  Tired, Thinking, Littles

  E. E. Cummings (2013). “Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte”, C.H.Beck

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