Quotes About Toys

People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.

We are currently too attached to our worldly toys, rather than to the lessons our playing could impart to further the maturity of our collective soul.

Both areas are relatively closed populations with low standards of living and both contain Native American reservations. In this context, if one were going to conduct a program of testing new technological toys on an unwitting population

I'm a geeky toy collector, and to have toys of your own characters is unbelievably cool.

A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.

I had one little brother and I would use him as a scapegoat to get us games. Obviously, I would get the more girly toys like dolls and Barbies, yadda, yadda, yadda. But I really wanted video games or action figures or something so I would send him to ask mom, 'Hey, I want this video game' when it was really we wanted this video game.

But pink's a nice color." "Not for goblins. Pink is the color of pure evil." I had a flashback to shopping for one of my nieces in the all-pink Barbie aisle at Toys "R" Us. I had to admit, it had creeped me out. I nodded. "I can see that.

I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of toys, the same number of meatballs on your spaghetti, the same share of love. But being a mother is completely different. You want your child to have more than you ever did. You want to build a fire underneath her and watch her soar. It's bigger than words.

I'm doing a lot of parenting work and acting as a spokesperson. I have a clothing line and a line of toys.

She got into bed with the lights on, holding a book. Books are okay to chew on, though they are fairly tasteless and it always makes people unhappy when a dog does so. They are one of those toys that dogs aren't supposed to play with.

Parenthetically, I have to say, I don't particularly like dolls, nor have I ever liked them.

I was totally all about the American Girl dolls when I was little - I had so many.

I wish I were a shark so humans would play with me with strange toys.

How did people raise kids before plastic came along? "Everything for Baby", said the sign over the aisle we were in. It should have said, "Everything for Baby Is Made from Molded Plastic in Ugly Primary Colors.

O si tu hijo no se cansa del expositor de Thomas la Locomotora en la tienda de juguetes y no está dispuesto a soltar el muñeco para poder marcharos, puedes proponerle un «sí» condicional. Prueba con algo así: «¡Ya sé! Llevamos a Thomas a la dependienta de allí y le explicamos que quieres que te lo guarde en un lugar seguro hasta que regresemos el martes para el cuentacuentos.»

One strategy that can be effective is to help the child create a "calm zone" with toys or books or a favorite stuffed animal, which she visits when she needs the time and place to calm down.

I was born in '76, so I vaguely remember seeing 'Empire Strikes Back' in theaters. But I remember just being obsessed with 'Return of the Jedi' and having my parents bring me to see it - at least four times in theaters - and being excited about the Ewoks, and coming home to play with the toy Ewok Village.

I always say that when I was a kid, I only played with the Darth Vadar and Storm Trooper action figures. I gravitated toward the villains. I think it's a common thing.

My favorite toy growing up was Polly Pocket. But one gift that I wanted though never received for Christmas was a pair of trampoline moon shoes. You strap them to your feet and they have springs on them, and you can just jump around!

I was lucky enough to grow up in a home where I woke up Christmas morning and had toys. I know that's not the case with all people and I don't think kids should go without experiencing that sort of joy.

Mistakes are 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.

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

Fat green frogs, the eternally grinning type destined to be shellacked into bizarre poses while wearing mariachi hats and holding toy trumpets and guitars and then sold in tourist traps all over Mexico, jostled lazily in the dappled shadows.

It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy I've played with too often. It's a little sad, like an old golliwog at the bottom of the cupboard. Innocent and used-up and proud and silly.