Clyde Tombaugh Quotes

When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories.

We had nothing, no television, no radio, nothing to get in the way. We read by the streetlight at the top of the lane, and we acted out the stories.

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

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

When I was a kid, we sat around the house. If I got bored, I'd have to figure out something to do.

Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination.

I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.

Kids can amuse themselves with almost anything.

I remember doing my mosaics or being in my little hiding place behind the couch snooping. I'd get bored sometimes, of course, but I think that's good for a kid, because it forces you to be creative.

I don't study; I create.

I was brought up in a very open, rural countryside in the middle of nowhere. There were no cell phones. If your lights went out, you were lit by candlelight for a good four days before they can get to you. And so, my imagination was crazy.

I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.

I grew up in Greeley, Colorado, in a house without a television set. I was a very nerdy kid: I used to play 'astronaut' and eat bouillon as astronaut food. We also had tons of books.

I was very physical as a child - we lived on a smallholding, and I was always outside making mud pies or building structures up trees.

I'm really thankful for the time that I grew up in that we didn't have cell phones, and we made a lot of our own fun.

Where I'm from, in the middle of the country, there were no clubs or parties. You had to make your own fun.

I'm not in the business of telling people 'DIY or die,' but I do think it's important to be as hands-on with what you're doing as possible.

Not being given everything encourages you to create... That was one of the first steps for me learning to invent things.

Our idea of fun wasn't going to Disney World. It was, you want to play basketball, go outside, and make a goal. You want to play baseball? Take the old broom, take the handle off, take a tennis ball that we found somewhere, and go play baseball. We were forced to create things.

As a kid, I remember taking apart whatever I could get my hands on.

All children have creative power.

I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it's myself at eight. Because that's when the forces of imagination have the same value as the real world, when they're an instrument of survival: when my mother disappeared, and I imagined a mother. That was me at my best.

One thing about 'Star Wars' that I'm really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That's why I like the 'Star Wars' toys.