Children Quote by Christopher Robin Milne

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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