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- Nov 07, 2020
Toys Quotes
Words that remember what it felt like to play.
These lines treat toys as more than objects - they're stand-ins for memory, resourcefulness, and wonder. One speaker still owns childhood figures decades later, another compares a film set to the biggest toy box a kid could imagine, and a third recalls making toys simply because there was no money to buy them. Explore more of that feeling in Childhood.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you go to my house, it's not like I'm 5, but I definitely have a lot of toys and weird, tiny miniatures.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Extravagance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to be very simple in my lifestyle. My only extravagance is... I buy lots of toys and meats for my dog.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I want is a way to put Universal monster toys back in the aisles alongside 'Star Wars' and all the other stuff and introduce today's kids to the classic monsters.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
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!'
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was nice to the people in the Philippines for the two and a half years I was there, because I knew eventually I'd have to kiss up to them so my grandchildren could have toys.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You try to be young, maybe you like to have a few toys, but it's not the most important thing in life.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a geeky toy collector, and to have toys of your own characters is unbelievably cool.
- Enrich
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- Nov 07, 2020