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“Other than his ex-wife and despite appearances with a series of cultivated blondes, Edward de Bono has never publicly aligned himself with a woman. 'I’m looking for a fat, cross-eyed hunchback,' he explains, stifling a giggle. 'A prosthetic hump would do.' His delight evaporates when asked about his three grandchildren. 'Am I a doting grandfather?' He pauses. 'I’m a … something grandfather, yes.' The fact that De Bono remains unperturbed by this lack betrays an emotionally austere childhood, and his passions for play, toys, and bad jokes tell of the same deprivation.”

“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.”

People Long Lasts Joy Left Behinds Morning Childhood Weapons Tools Our Children Acquire Toys Not Interested Left Behind Firearms Shooter Christmas Morning

Author:Jeff Cooper

“I didn't have an imaginary childhood friend, but I did one day imagine somehow tiny green men, and they were only tiny and green because my brother had a ton of toy soldier toys that came on a skateboard plank type of thing, and I just envisioned in this car driving to church with my mom, they were there.”

Men Church Imagine Childhood Car Brother Mom Type One Day Green Soldier My Mom Tiny Driving My Brother Imaginary Toys Childhood Friend Car Driving Toy Soldiers

Author:Jim Parsons

“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.”

Mind Children Littles Book States Able Order Childhood Special Baby Our Children Innocence Your Children State Of Mind Toys

Author:Idina Menzel

“I wanted the Andy of Toy Story 3 to be right on the cusp, straddling childhood and adulthood ... I wanted to find this sweet spot where he had gotten tall and had clearly grown up but still retained many boyish qualities, including a boyish charm.”

Stills Stories Wanted Quality Childhood Sweet Including Spots Charm Tall Toys Adulthood Boyish Cusp Toy Story 3

Author:Lee Unkrich

“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.”

Book Play Kids Parent Childhood Treats Ill Toys Solitary Consolation Deprived Good Book

Book:A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction

Source: A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction

“Photography is a great adventure in thinking and looking, a wonderful magic toy that miraculously manages to combine our adult awareness with the fairy-tale world of childhood, a never-ending journey through great and small, through variations and the realm of illusions and appearances, a labyrinthine and specular place of multitudes and simulation.”

“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.”

People Trying Helping Childhood Morality Comfort Offers Ethics Toys Distress Stirring Toddler

Author:Steven Pinker

“Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.”

Persons Childhood Train Insane Toys Boston Freeways

Book:The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America

Source: The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America

“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.”

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Book:Lone Wolf: A Novel

Source: Lone Wolf: A Novel

“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.”

Sometimes Lost Memories Childhood Adults Bottom Forgotten Covered Toys Closets Childhood Memories

Book:The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel

Source: The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel

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

Play Childhood Missing Toys Fifteen

Book:Among Others

Source: Among Others

“(Talking about his first computer) Like all kids we not only fooled around with our toys, we changed them. If you've ever watched a child with a cardboard carton and a box of crayons create a spaceship with cool control panels, or listened to their improvised rules, such as "Red cars can jump all others," then you know that this impulse to make a toy do more is at the heart of innovative childhood play. It is also the essence of creativity.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“What I have got from my childhood aren't toys, but memories. And happy memories are better than any toy.”

Memories Childhood Toys Happy Memories

Author:River Phoenix