11 Christopher Robin Milne Quotes for You to Enjoy

Christopher Robin Milne

English Businessman

Born: Aug 21, 1920

Died: Apr 20, 1996

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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

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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

Day Me Together Events Parents Out Part Almost Nanny Occasional Became Were Encounters Much Stand Consequently

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

If I seem to write most happily about the ordinary things that boys do who live in the country, it is because this is the part of my childhood that I look back upon with the greatest affection. Christopher Robin Milne

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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

Live Valley Small Seldom Bottom Small Town Town Venture Far

War and love - they have much in common. You can theorize about them, but until you have experienced them, you cannot know them, for the emotions that they engender are as complicated and as conflicting, as noble and as ignoble, as any that life has to offer. Christopher Robin Milne

Life Love War You Emotions Complicated About Noble Know Until Offer Any Common Experienced Cannot Conflicting Them Much

It was not to learn about politics that I had gone to Cambridge. I was there as a mathematician, having won a major scholarship to Trinity College the previous year. Perhaps if there had not been quite so many things to distract me, I might have remained a mathematician. Christopher Robin Milne

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Fractions, decimals, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, mechanics - these are the steps up the mountain side. How high is one going to get? For me, the pinnacle was Projective Geometry. Who today has even heard of this branch of mathematics? Christopher Robin Milne

Just as the great composer is seldom also a great player, so is the great mathematician seldom also a great teacher. Christopher Robin Milne

Teacher Great Composer Great Player Seldom Great Teacher Also Mathematician Just Player

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