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 Copy Share Image
It was not to learn about politics that I had gone to Cambridge. I was there as a mathematician, having won a major scholarship… — Christopher Robin Milne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If I seem to write most happily about the ordinary things that boys do who live in the country, it is because this is… — Christopher Robin Milne Copy Share Image
My father had always hoped that one day I would be a great cricketer, captaining the Stowe Eleven, perhaps, or even playing for Cambridge. — Christopher Robin Milne Copy Share Image
I live at the bottom of a valley. I have a small bookshop in a small town, and I seldom venture far afield. — Christopher Robin Milne Copy Share Image
One can never be sure whether a very early memory is a real memory or just the recollection of something which you were told… — Christopher Robin Milne Copy Share Image
My father was an individualist, and I took after him. At school, however, one is forced to be gregarious. I didn't resent this, but… — Christopher Robin Milne Copy Share Image
Fractions, decimals, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, mechanics - these are the steps up the mountain side. How high is one going to get? For… — Christopher Robin Milne Copy Share Image
So much were we together that Nanny became almost a part of me. Consequently, it was my occasional encounters with my parents that stand… — Christopher Robin Milne Copy Share Image
In pessimistic moments, when I was trudging London in search of an employer wanting to make use of such talents as I could offer,… — Christopher Robin Milne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Christopher Robin who appears in so many of the poems is not always me. This was where my name, so totally useless to… — Christopher Robin Milne Copy Share Image
My father did not drink beer. He said he didn't like the taste, and I was prepared to accept that I wouldn't like the… — Christopher Robin Milne Copy Share Image
Just as the great composer is seldom also a great player, so is the great mathematician seldom also a great teacher. — Christopher Robin Milne Copy Share Image
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… — Christopher Robin Milne Copy Share Image
