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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.
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One of the things that fascinates me most about the toys of the Sixties and Seventies is that they were characters without stories, as such.
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Whitley Bay was my first experience of the seaside. I'd buy my bucket and spade, and beach ball, and all the shops were teeming with toys. I used to spend hours on the shuggy boats.
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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.
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I had really specific ideas of what kind of mom I was going to be and what kind of things I was going to provide for my child - even down to the organic, wooden toys Birdie was going to be allowed to chew on. Then cut to my daughter being obsessed with every plastic, 99-cent store toy.
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Adults spend $500 billion on games and leisure activity each year, and some adults lament that kids get $15 billion for toys.
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Research has shown that children who play often both solitarily and socially become more creative and imaginative than those whose exposure to play and toys is limited.
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Once upon a time, soft toys were for babies. Now they're taken for granted as a feature of adult life.
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The main point for me is that toys are incredibly more important than we realized.
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Puritanical attempts to cure society by taking toys away from children are hypocritical and futile.
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Monorails have their own fan club, which claims more than 2,500 members who swap monorail toys and trinkets. Modern light rail can claim no such devoted fan base.
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I'm honored the folks and Bendon understood why I wanted to work with them and Toys for Tots.
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I play with toys. I have one plane that travels with me. It travels with the equipment.
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I'm an avid collector of toys. I got everything. Name it. From the Easy Bake Oven to Barbies to every TV show doll, racing cars... I've been collecting since I was a little kid.
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