Sherry Yard Quotes

I grew up with three little brothers. Every Christmas, we'd have piles of toy trucks and Lincoln Logs and G.I. Joes under the tree. Those were for them. For me? My No. 1 favorite present of all time: books. Two or three tall stacks of wonderful stories that I could lose myself in for weeks.

My mom told me I never had enough Tonka toys when I was growing up.

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

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

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

I never played with anything like toys.

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

I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them.

I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me.

I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way.

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

I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart.

It's every little girl's dream to have an exact look-alike doll. It's amazing.

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

I was always dressing up as a kid in the backyard, building some sort of fort and having battles against imaginary enemies. It's often that same feeling when you're pretending for a living, but it's with bigger toys.

My father brought me a box of books once when I was about three and a half or four. I remember the carton they were in and the covers with illustrations by Newell C. Wyeth.

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.

I did grow up in Kenosha, Wisconsin, around a lot of my mom's family. I had a lot of cousins and aunts and uncles around me, and my sisters and my brother. Probably the most formative part of it was that we grew up on the edge of a forest. It wasn't a big forest, but it was enough. When you're a kid, it feels gigantic.

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.

Okay - before I even had a baby, I would dream of the day I could make ponytails on my kid. I don't know why. I somehow got it in my head that it would be such a cool thing.

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

I loved make-believe. I was the child in the cupboard playing with my Barbies.

I remember pretending to be the characters in the movies when I was a little kid.

I had 'Star Wars' figures and G.I. Joes and Transformers and all the posters.

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