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“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.”

Children Father Bits Broken Bed Machines Boxes Toys Electric Motor Useful Things Electric Motors

Author:Nick Park

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

Children Nice Toys Mum Lipstick Demonstrating Housekeeping Some Nice Good Housekeeping

Author:Tracey Ullman

“Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.”

Children Has Beens Age Brain Five Six Computer Our Children Comparison Metals Toys

Author:Claude Vorilhon

“Paul Klee seems to handle colors and dreams as if they both came out of a box of children's toys. He plays and dreams with whatever he finds.”

Ifs Children Play Dream Seems Color Boxes Handle Toys

Author:Jean Helion

“That is just the way with Memory; nothing that she brings to us is complete. She is a willful child; all her toys are broken. I remember tumbling into a huge dust-hole when a very small boy, but I have not the faintest recollection of ever getting out again; and if memory were all we had to trust to, I should be compelled to believe I was there still.”

Ifs Way Should Believe Children Stills Remember Memories Boys Huge Broken Holes Dust Toys Compelled Recollection Tumbling

Book:Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1

Source: Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1

“I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! However, if I must suffer, I will endeavour to suffer in silence. There is certainly a great defect in my mind my wayward heart creates its own misery Why I am made thus I cannot tell; and, till I can form some idea of the whole of my existence, I must be content to weep and dance like a child long for a toy, and be tired of it as soon as I get it.”

Ifs Mind Heart Children Long Made I Can Ideas Whole Form Suffering Existence Silence Strange Weakness Tired Misery Resolution Toys Defects Compounds Endeavour

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“Department store Santas are apparently being trained to lower children's expectations about toys because of the recession. Yeah, it's weird when you ask Santa for a train set and he's like, 'Yeah, how 'bout a bus token?”

Children Asks Expectations Yeah Train Stores Department Bus Toys Santa Recessions Tokens Department Stores

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“I think it's time we women stopped carrying supplies for the entire family. If children don't have room to carry their own toys, if men don't have pockets in their pants, tougho.”

Ifs Thinking Men Children Women Rooms Pockets Pants Toys Supplies

Book:Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist

Source: Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist

“Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore.”

Source: Paradise Regained In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version

“It is apparent that nations cannot exist for us. They are the playthings of children, such toys as children break from boredom and weariness. The branch of a tree is my country. My freedom sleeps in a mulberry bush. My country is in the shivering legs of a little lost dog.”

Children Littles Country Lost Nations Sleep Break Tree Dog Legs Boredom Branches Toys Weariness Lost Dog Mulberry

Author:Sherwood Anderson

“All the lessons learned, unlearned; The young, who learned to read, now blind, Their eyes with an archaic film; The peasant relapses to a stumbling tune, Following the donkey's bray; These only remember to forget. But somewhere some word presses, On the high door of a skull and in some corner, Of an irrefrangible eye, Some old man memory jumps to a child - Spark from the days of energy. And the child hoards it like a bitter toy.”