Howard Graham Buffett Quotes

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

I loved playing with Barbies - that's why I didn't stop!

I was never one for dolls.

I played with two lines of action figures when I was a kid: G.I. Joe and Star Wars.

For me it is important that children be children. My parents felt exactly the same about me.

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.'

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.

When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and stuffed animals, pretend like they're real dogs.

I loved my childhood. They had the coolest toys back then. Star Wars, Transformers, laser-tag gun sets. Toy companies have really gone downhill.

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

I grew up playing cowboy, and I still have all my Johnny West toys from when I was a kid. I have my actual toys from when I was five.

When I was four and my sister six, we got a Susie Homemaker oven for our birthdays.

Well, when I wasn't playing with a football I used to play with 'Star Wars' figures as a kid. Hanging out with Chewbacca and Luke Skywalker is how I passed the time when I wasn't kicking a ball around.

As a kid, I liked building a lot of Legos and built houses and did some fun stuff with that.

I've always been interested in creating things for kids.

If parents are the fixed stars in the child's universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

I never played with anything like toys.

As a little girl I loved the thought of playing dress-up and getting ready.

My mom told me as a youngster I was always intellectual, like as far as being able to adapt fast and quick. But I had a fun childhood, went to regular school.

In fact, my son learned his first swear word from E.T. at age five. The way I look at it, E.T. stole a bit of my son's childhood.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

'The Secret Garden' was the first musical that I fell in love with when I was a kid. My mom took me to see it, and it was the first one that I owned the soundtrack to and listened to over and over again.

Every parent knows this moment in a child's age when he or she needs your attention in a very specific way because it's the beginning and ending of the early life of imagination. It's such a responsibility.