Toys Quotes - Page 14

• The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Boys, Men, Differences

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• My younger daughter told me recently that when she was a child she thought the typewriter was a toy that I went into my room and closed the door and played with.

  William Maxwell

  Daughter, Children, Typewriters

  William Maxwell, Barbara Burkhardt (2012). “Conversations with William Maxwell”, p.45, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There are a lot of Christians who are halfway fellows. They stand in the door, holding on to the Church with one hand while they play with the toys of the world with the other. They are in the doorway and we can't bring sinners in.

  Mordecai Ham

  Christian, Doors, Hands

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• A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.

  D. A. Carson

  Years, Important, Eternity

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• The life we live is just a colourful and deposit toy.
  Some of us take it so seriously and fight and cry for it.
  Some of us break and throw it.
  Either we give extreme importance, either not enough.
  Better to stay far from extremes.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Fighting, Giving, Cry

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• Stop using your phones and laptops as toys and use them to start a revolution.

  Van Jones

  Phones, Use, Laptops

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• When I was 8, I got a little toy propeller plane: You could turn it on and the people disappeared from the little windows and stewardesses appeared, and it ran along the ground.

  John Travolta

  People, Littles, Window

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• 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.

  Joanna Lumley

  Kitchen, Bed, Giraffe

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• It distresses me when I take my seven-year-old nephew out. I cook healthy food, and he wants to go to McDonald's. He doesn't even like the food; he just wants the toys, the Happy Meals. I can't stand to see people walking down the street eating fast food.

  Julia Sawalha

  Mcdonalds, Years, People

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• Twitter is one of those dangerous toys that if it gets in the hands of the wrong person you'll have the mind of a 12-year-old masquerading as an adult.

  Colin Quinn

  Hands, Years, Mind

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• Of all times, it is Christmas when we must surely realize that there can be no true worship of Him who is the Christ without giving of ourselves. At this season let us, each one, reach out a little more generously in the spirit of the Christ. It is not enough to give toys and baubles. It is not enough to give alms to those in need.... It is also important that we give of ourselves with our alms.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Christmas, Giving, Important

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• The whole business was like a child's toy that you could buy at the dime store, all built in this wonderful way that you could explain in Life magazine so that really a five-year-old can understand what's going on...This was the greatest surprise for everyone.

  Max Delbruck

  Children, Dna, Years

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• I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book. . . . I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.

  Groucho Marx

  Hate, Book, Thinking

  Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.29, Da Capo Press

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• Everyone needs love, never hurt a living thing [and] don’t worry about the choices you make because everything will be fun because life is a closet filled with pool toys.

  Amy Poehler

  Hurt, Fun, Worry

  "Amy Poehler: 'I loved cocaine but eventually hated it' - actress opens up about her drugs past" by Katy Forrester, www.mirror.co.uk. October 14, 2014.

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• Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Romance, Emergencies, Modern

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• Technology is permeating every single thing we do... And to the extent that we can better expose our young people to all the different ways that technology can be used, not just for video games or toys, we're planning for the future.

  Marc Morial

  Technology, Games, People

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• The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment.

  Brock Yates

  Children, Moving, Icons

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• My husband's personality was filled with serenity and sunlight. Not even the incurable illness which fell upon him soon after our marriage could long cloud his brow. On the very night of his death he took me in his arms, and during the many months when he lay dying in his wheel chair, he often said jokingly to me: 'Well, have you already picked out a lover?' I blushed with shame. 'Don't deceive me,' he added on one occasion, 'that would seem ugly to me, but pick out an attractive lover, or preferably several. You are a splendid woman, but still half a child, and you need toys.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Love, Husband, Children

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.31, Cosimo Classics

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• I was given a stethoscope in a child's 'doctor's bag' at about age six and I loved it! One could hear the heart beating through that plastic toy.

  Jessye Norman

  Love, Children, Heart

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• In this era of affluence and of permissiveness, we have, in all but cultural areas, bred a nation of overprivileged youngsters, saturated with vitamins, television and plastic toys.

  Judith Crist

  Television, Eras, Vitamins

  Judith Crist (1968). “The private eye, the cowboy, and the very naked girl: movies from Cleo to Clyde”

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• Like a sea-beast fished up from the depths, or a diver too suddenly hoisted, my veins threatened to burst from the fall in pressure. I had great anxiety and no means of relieving it ... And then it was that the Muse of Painting came to my rescue - out of charity and out of chivalry ... - and said, "Are these toys any good to you? They amuse some people."

  Winston Churchill

  Fall, Mean, Sea

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.140, Da Capo Press

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• Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals.

  John Dewey

  Past, History, Imagination

  John Dewey (1970). “Characters and events: popular essays in social and political philosophy”

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• TIME WENT ON, life with the children unfolding in its own ecosystem, small plastic toys seeming to grow up from the carpet like mushrooms, clothes falling to the floor like autumn leaves. Every once in a while she would blaze through the house and clean everything-at which point, the process would start all over.

  Erica Bauermeister

  Children, Growing Up, Fall

  Erica Bauermeister (2011). “Joy For Beginners”, p.63, Penguin

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• Language is the best, best toy.

  Jerry Holkins

  Language

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• As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped remind one of the God who is formless and eternal.

  Ramakrishna

  Real, Animal, Elephants

  Ramakrishna (1916). “Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: the most exhaustive collection of the sacred and inspired utterances of Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna”

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