Dick Strawbridge Quotes

Like most boys, I had a model train set up in my bedroom, resting on a little-used ping-pong table upstairs.

Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.

When I was a kid, and I was watching TV, I just loved it so much that I wanted to crawl into that TV.

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

I used to play with model trains when I was a kid, and then I used to study history.

Nintendo, at its heart, is about making us feel younger than we are today.

Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything.

I'm not the most sophisticated person. I'm not the smartest person in the world. But, I know what makes me excited about life, from Spielberg movies to Michael Jackson music videos to cartoons on Saturday mornings, which made my childhood.

I have liked trains since I was a boy, although I was never a train-spotter.

I grew up with games. It changed my life. It changed my social relationships with my friends. It defined my childhood. It's something I really cherished.

I grew up in Newport, so I went to Boston growing up. The city holds a lot of special memories of my childhood, like the Swan Boats and Make Way for Ducklings.

'Peanuts' is a life-long influence, going back to before I could even read.

My Mickey Mouse ears were given to me by a dear friend. They remind me of how I need to be silly.

I don't really remember a lot of my childhood.

I saved up my pocket money when I was about five or six years old. I just wanted to buy a CD, and at that age, I didn't care about what it was, and I ended up buying 'The Teletubbies Say 'Eh-Oh!'' I started off strong.

That's the time I remember as a kid, being so excited to go to the movies. To be part of that now is really an amazing gift.

When I was a kid, I loved Nintendo.

I remember religiously watching Ellen DeGeneres' show when I was growing up.

When I was a kid, everyone wanted to be cowboys and Indians.

My favorite thing from my childhood is video games.

I loved playing with a doll as a youngster. I liked dressing her up and combing her hair. This one doll had a really big face and hair and earrings. I had her for a long time and only got rid of her when I was at high school.

I remember how much fun it was to be a child in the kibbutz.

When I was 9, I saw 'Star Wars,' and it set me on a path to where I am today.

I enjoyed a cartoon show called 'Recess' throughout my high school career. The target audience for that show was 8-11 years old.

I have been a fan of the Beastie Boys ever since I can remember. I have a ton of their music on my iPod and even still have a t-shirt from a show I saw when I was a kid.