Quotes About Play

I got a toy keyboard when I was around like five or six.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Yeah, I played with LEGOs. We had LEGOs, Lincoln Logs, and Playmobil, and they all occupied the same space. I guess that's fairly common. I'm saying this as if it's a bizarre phenomenon that we had a toy chest.

There's something about a toy to a child where the relationship is real, where the kid is playing, and it's just really amazing.

You can't leave the house without a toy car if you've got a son.

I do hear from people at my exhibition about seeing these things made from this toy from their childhood, and it brings them back. They'll go and buy a set of Lego from the gift shop because of that nostalgia and seeing it at the art exhibition.

It was kind of like they were just giving us a toy to play with, to do whatever we wanted with.

To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself.

I would say the best toy for any cat is always some sort of dangling item on a string or fishing-rod-type structure.

As a girl, my favorite toy was my dollhouse; if I could still play with it now, I would!

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!'

My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.

When you unbox a My Little Pony or a Strawberry Shortcake doll, you were hit with a sweet, impossibly perfect fragrance of fresh, machine-made plastic oftentimes infused with floral and fruity notes to bring the toy to life. That third dimension of sensory experience made the toy so real to me.

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

Every kid has a toy that they believe is their best friend, that they believe communicates with them, and they imagine it being alive, their toy horse or car or whatever it is. Stop-motion is the only medium where we literally can make a toy come to life, an actual object.

I had always been a really peculiar child. My mom would tell you I grew up roughing it with the boys and playing with action figures and toy cars and stuff, but I also had an Easy Bake Oven... I find it amazing that in a really weird way, people are mad that they can't figure out my gender.

I would make my mom buy me the toy doctor kit.

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.

A toy is seen both as a bauble and as an intellectual machine.

When my own son was 12, we didn't want toy guns in the house. So he just picked up a stick and went, 'Bam! Bam! Bam!' That's the testosterone of a 12-year-old boy.

When you think about it, the most important thing to a toy is to be played with by a child, and anything that keeps them from being played with gives them stress - things like getting lost, getting broken.

When I was a kid, I had a xylophone, and I thought that was the instrument I wanted to play. I didn't realize it was a toy.

When I was little, I didn't even know what acting was. But I was in commercials - baby toy commercials like Fisher-Price.

My parents bought this baby grand piano, which was in my living room, that I owe a lot to. I would just play it and write on it for hours. It was my favorite toy.