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I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too.
What I have got from my childhood aren't toys, but memories. And happy memories are better than any toy.
While other kids played with cars and toys, I listened to music all day. I wanted to sing it and learn it.
I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.
You can't teach an old dog new dog new tricks. Now,you can give an old dog new toys. And we've got one here!
Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail.
When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp.
There is no possible justification or excuse for marketing dangerous weapons to children as if they were toys.
That's what happens when they give guys like me a television show: you try and get toys and Garbage Pail Kids!
The happiest moments of my childhood were when my toys broke, because then I could destroy them with impunity.
To toy with something is to manipulate it, to try it out within sets of contexts none of which is determinate.
If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.
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.
But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out.
The more fascinated we become with the toys of this world, the more we forget that there's another world to come.
Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy?
Apart from sharing my tips on toys or snacks, I'm open to hearing new ideas from other moms. I want to learn, too.
I grew up in Scotland in the 1970s. There was not much money. The most popular Christmas toy was probably a potato.
God has given us a universe. It's really an expensive toy with no instructions. We're gonna break it sooner or later.
I was always taking garbage from around the house and making my own toys. I wasn't given a Wii or an Xbox or anything.
If they were siblings, 'Hairless Toys' would be the nice child, and 'Take Her Up to Monto' is more of a problem child.
A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.
Start with something simple and small, then expand over time. If people call it a 'toy' you're definitely onto something.
My mum would like to see me on the cover of 'Good Housekeeping' demonstrating children's toys with some nice lipstick on.
We don't have to make toys that are coated with lead paint in China. We can make good toys in Alabama and North Carolina.
As a peace activist, I am dismayed by the encouragement of aggressiveness and violence by television, movies, and war toys.
I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys.
I was very lucky growing up, and I got all my dad's and aunts' toys from the 1950s and 1960s and loved those old pedal cars.
I'm like a stuffed toy. You've never met me, but if you did, you'd just want to take me home and put me in your child's room.
Usually, if you smile at them and show some interest in the toy, they will give it to you. That's a straight up Democrat move!
When I was a kid, nobody in my family had a car. And I didn't have many toys. The only toys I had were the ones I would steal.
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.
I remember when I was a kid and I was interested in robots, there was really nothing out there but Erector Sets and Tinker Toys.
One thing about 'Star Wars' that I'm really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That's why I like the 'Star Wars' toys.
I used to make polyhedra with my father. There were no clear lines between games and toys for children and his professional work.
I am quite a calm player. I do have a go at players and refs in the heat of the moment, but I never throw my toys out of the pram.
I want to have a little toy version of Morgana. I can then show it to my grandchildren one day. So I can say I used to have a waist.
I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked.
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.
Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand.
The woman has the right to be emancipated from the position of a drudge or a toy. She is entitled to a full equality in rights with man.
A studio allows you to indulge your untidiness and your penchant for toys and curiosities that really wouldn't work in a grown-up house.
I consider myself a general practitioner. I do electronic things. I do toys and water things, mechanical stuff. I'm very, very flexible.
All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good.
In our family, my brothers and I shared toys. In other words, just because it was mine didn't mean my brothers and I didn't play with it.
Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful if some manufacturer would make a toy as tough, as staunch, as hard to crack open as the carton it comes in!
I 'ad a toy when I was little,' said Suzy. She frowned for a moment, then added, 'Can't remember what it was. It moved and made me laugh.
Toys are intriguing, and I want to see what I can do with them. On a deeper level, they represent one way that society socializes its young
It's easy for women to say they don't understand and ask a man for help. As the saying goes, boys play with toys, and girls play with boys.
The coolest toys don't have to be bought; they can be built. In fact, sometimes the only way they'll ever exist is if you make them yourself.