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,… — Christopher Robin Milne Copy Share Image
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
