I enjoyed playing with my mother. This was something she was good at. There were plenty of things she couldn’t do, had never been taught to do, didn’t need to do because there was someone to do them for her, and she certainly couldn’t have coped alone with a tiny child. Christopher Robin Milne Read Quote
The Christopher Robin who appears in so many of the poems is not always me. This was where my name, so totally useless to me personally, came into its own: it was a wonderful name for writing poetry round. Christopher Robin Milne Read Quote
So much were we together that Nanny became almost a part of me. Consequently, it was my occasional encounters with my parents that stand out as the events of the day. Christopher Robin Milne Read Quote
Mathematics is like music. Neither needs to be useful. It is enough that each gives delight to those who seek delight from it. Christopher Robin Milne Read Quote
In pessimistic moments, when I was trudging London in search of an employer wanting to make use of such talents as I could offer, it seemed to me, almost, that my father had got to where he was by climbing upon my infant shoulders, that he had filched from me my good name and had left me with nothing but the empty fame of being his son. Christopher Robin Milne Read Quote
When a child is small, it is his mother who is mainly responsible for the way he is brought up. So it was with me. I belonged in those days to my mother rather than my father. Christopher Robin Milne Read Quote
I like to have around me the things I like today, not the things I once liked many years ago. Christopher Robin Milne Read Quote
Some people are good with children. Others are not. It is a gift. You either have it, or you don’t. My father didn’t. Christopher Robin Milne Read Quote
One can never be sure whether a very early memory is a real memory or just the recollection of something which you were told happened. Christopher Robin Milne Read Quote
When I was three, my father was three. When I was six, he was six… he needed me to escape from being 50. Christopher Robin Milne Read Quote
