Quotes About Play

My first toy was a box of transistors.

When I was a kid, if I liked something from merchandising, I'd have to go to the toy store.

When I was a boy, my parents would buy me a new toy and I would destroy it. Oh man, I would destroy it. I don't know why I would do such a thing. I was a little rough when I was a little kid.

My first baby toy was a basketball and ever since, I've had a basketball in my hands.

My first toy hoop was a Dr. J model!

To this day, I have the most fond memories of some of my old toys.

Well I grew up in a small town in Iowa and there weren't a lot of imaginative and fun outlets for kids of my caliber, so pretty much my mom's closet and any large pieces of fabric in the Halloween box were my favorite toys.

The main point for me is that toys are incredibly more important than we realized.

Today, I give my daughter what I really didn't have as a kid: all the silly, dumb, extravagant, frilly, nonfunctional toys I can force on her. She probably wants an encyclopedia.

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.

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.

Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.

I love building things like robots, toys, and all of that.

Don't take your toys inside just because it's raining.

We all know how tough children are with toys. It turns out grownups are much worse.

I had the whole 'Ghostbusters' toy set with the firehouse and the car and everything. Sometimes I'd use my grandpa's camera and make little stop-motion cartoons with those toys - I was definitely a weird kid.

I remember when I was a kid and I was interested in robots, there was really nothing out there but Erector Sets and Tinker Toys.

The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.

As children, we did not have toys. We invented characters and animals; we invented stories.

The happiest moments of my childhood were when my toys broke, because then I could destroy them with impunity.

Games can be art, and they can be significant and all the glorified things that we want them to be. But if you ask a kid if their toys are important, they'll say 'yes,' and 'Please don't take them away.'

There were no toys or games when I was younger, just a football.

I used to make polyhedra with my father. There were no clear lines between games and toys for children and his professional work.

At three, I fell in love with numbers. It was sheer ecstasy for me to do sums and get the right answers. Numbers were toys with which I could play.