Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul. — Friedrich Frobel
Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child. — John Lasseter
Make a game out of practice, you're still a child at heart — Harvey Penick
Enter into children's play and you will find the place where their minds, hearts, and souls meet. — Virginia Axline
Play is the most natural method of self-healing that childhood affords. — Erik Erikson
The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery. — Erik Erikson
It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents. — Eric Hoffer
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child. — Heraclitus
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood. — Fred Rogers
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience. — Johan Huizinga
There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal. — Sigmund Freud
Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat. — Fran Lebowitz
Short Child's Play Quotes
When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out. — Erma Bombeck
To be an actor you have to be a child. — Paul Newman
All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy. — Paul Laurence Dunbar
Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play. — Friedrich Nietzsche
As far as I'm concerned playing 'Dress Up' begins at the age of five, and never truly ends. — Kate Spade
Child's Play Image Quotes
It is easier to build up a child than it is to repair and adult.
Happy Child Play Quotes
If you go back to childhood, you observe that if a child’s basic needs are met their default state is happy – they don’t need an iPhone, they can play with their toes and be happy. — Mo Gawdat
Man must be happy, as happy as a poor child cheerfully playing with his poor toy! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
I am so grateful to be a writer. I hope every child grows up and finds something to do that will seem important and that will seem precious. Happy living and, especially, happy playing. — Cynthia Rylant
You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: Played it safe.
Contemporary American psychiatrist
It is a happy talent to know how to play. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates. — Dag Hammarskjold
Maturity: among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates. — Dag Hammarskjold
A child can teach an adult three things: To be happy for no reason, to always be curious, to fight tirelessly for something.
I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit. — Michael Leunig
Whoever wants to understand much must play much. — Gottfried Benn
A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. — Rachel Carson
A child learns to walk and falls down 50 times. He never thinks to himself, "maybe this isn't for me?".
A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. — Rachel Carson
That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay. — Brian Aldiss
Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
You playing chess well is just a reflection of your inner thought process and your ability to maintain discipline throughout. If we can teach every child that, then we've taught them to be better people, better friends and better citizens. — Maurice Ashley
And what does every child believe every adult capable of doing? Of actually being able to bend the world to an inner desire, exactly what the child is busily practicing in his passionate play. — Joseph Chilton Pearce
Never neglect an opportunity to play leap-frog; it is the best of all games, and, unlike the terribly serious and conscientious pastimes of modern youth, will never become professionalized. — Hesketh Pearson
Children Playing Quotes
A child’s greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action. — Lev S. Vygotsky
It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self. — Donald Woods Winnicott
I'm not a prophet of doom, I'm a prophet of love. But love will bid a warning doom to the children who play on the freeway. We need to wake up. — Keith Green
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Put a small child in a playpen with an apple and a bunny. If s/he eats the apple and plays with the bunny, s/he's normal;but if s/he eats the bunny and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. Somewhere along the line we must have been TAUGHT to do the wrong thing. — Maynard James Keenan
I wish children could grow according to their natural pace: sleep when sleepy, wake up when rested, eat when hungry, cry when upset, play and explore without being unnecessarily interrupted; in other words, be allowed to grow and blossom as each was meant to. — Magda Gerber
Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul. — Dave Pelzer
Never change your originality for the sake of others. Because no one can play your role better than you.
We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense... — Beatrix Potter
My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played. — James Nasmyth
The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously. — Sigmund Freud
Kids Playing Quotes
About a month ago some kids in my neighborhood were playing hide-and-go-seek and one of them ended up in an abandoned refrigerator. It's all anybody talked about for weeks. I said, 'Who cares? How many kids you know get to die a winner? — Anthony Jeselnik
I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play. — Ozzy Osbourne
I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old. — Billie Holiday
It is easier to build up a child than it is to repair an adult.
She and my uncle were very sociable and would have a lot of people over at night to play cards or whatever. The high spot of those evenings was when we kids got dressed up to do a skit or something to amuse the guests. I loved it. — Louise Fletcher
Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man. — Pele
When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them. — Jim Henson
A child needs your love most when they deserve it least.
Besides the great concern over long-term damage to kids, the COVID-19 vaccines make the children acutely ill. Cannot play or participate in school or activities for days. Products should be pulled off the market, not injected into children! — Peter A. McCullough
I always want to be the best at what I do. As a kid, whatever I was doing, if I was playing football or whatever I was applying my energy to at the time, I always wanted to do it to the best of my abilities. And I was always interested in finding out how I could do it better. — Lewis Hamilton
I was considered the black sheep of the family, neighbours didn't want their kids playing with me. — Michelle Pfeiffer
In Moscow I feel most comfortable. I'm used to four different seasons; it's difficult for people in London to understand. People brought up in Russia like my kids want to play in the snow. — Roman Abramovich
The mind grows by self revelation. In play the child ascertains what he can do, discovers his possibilities of will and thought by exerting his power spontaneously. In work he follows a task prescribed for him by another, and doesn't reveal his own proclivities and inclinations; but another's. In play he reveals his own original power. — Friedrich Frobel
Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love. — Craig Claiborne
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand ~Randy Pausch
When I was a child I liked the games of Capablanca, and later I was captivated by Alekhine's play. — Vladimir Kramnik
Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun. — Tiger Woods
I ask why your Omnipotent God does not hold a man back when he is about to commit a sin or offence. It is child’s play for God. Why did He not kill war lords? Why did He not remove the fury of war from their minds? In this way God could have saved humanity from great calamity and horror. — Bhagat Singh
I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked. — Sigourney Weaver
Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain. — Aristotle
I wanted to write something from a child's viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was a need. — Meg Tilly
Alongside getting faith out of a heart that is utterly hostile and unbelieving, making a silk purse out of a sow's ear or getting blood from a turnip is child's play. — John Gerstner
Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood. — Stephen King
All our work in the field, in the garden, in the city, in the home, in struggle, in government-to what does it all amount before God except child's play, by means of which God is pleased to give his gifts in the field, at home, and everywhere? These are the masks of our Lord God, behind which he wants to be hidden and to do all things. — Martin Luther
I had a teacher in Paris, who said that if an actor forgot what it's like to play as a child he shouldn't be an actor. I've always loved being with children. It's marvellous to see the fresh ways they see the world. Watching them look at a tree or a river helps you to understand something that's very important. — Simon McBurney
... with Voodoo Child somebody was filming when we started doing that. We did that about three times because they wanted to film us in the studio, to make us (imitates a pompous voice) 'make it look like you're recording boys' - one of them scenes, you know, so okey, let's play this and then we went into Voodoo Child — Jimi Hendrix
When I was a child, it was my dream to be a professional footballer. When I was 14 I visited Milan's San Siro stadium and remember thinking how unbelievable it was. From then onwards I vowed that one day I would be playing there - and I am very proud that I achieved this and also for everything else I have managed to achieve in football. — Andriy Shevchenko
When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real. — Margery Williams
Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real." "Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit. "Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt. — Margery Williams
Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play. — Thomas Hardy
Every role I've played, that could've happened. It's nice, it happens, but it is rather disconcerting when a young child comes up to at the airport and starts doing your lines, it happens. — Michael York
The argument goes that the pay gap only exists because of women's 'choices' of work type, hours, and child related career breaks, effectively making it a myth. But research shows that while those are factors, they don't account for the whole gap, suggesting that discrimination certainly plays a role as well. — Laura Bates
I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play. — Albert Einstein
Giving the cat a name, like marriage, is not an easy thing. Soon I experienced the selection of name for a baby, a dog, a book, a warship, a sports team, even the king, the pope or a hurricane is just child's play compared to the selection of the cat's name. — Cleveland Amory
It's important, according to me, to train in small doses so as to not lose the joy of playing chess. I personally think too many coaching and training classes may take away a child's interest in the game itself. The essential thing to do is practise often and, in case of a doubt, to consult a trainer. — Viswanathan Anand
For an actor to remain a child is rather important. It's a childlike, dreamy thing, acting, if you think about it. It's the sort of thing children fantasise about, playing cowboys and Indians in the street. I think that acting is just a highly refined development of that. — Michael Gambon
The Red Sox are a religion. Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell, up here in Boston it's a passion play. — George V. Higgins
... for the modern soul, for which it is mere child's play to bridge oceans and continents, there is nothing so impossible as to find the contact with the souls dwelling just around the corner. — Robert Musil
If I look back, my mother was always out. I can remember the perfume and her scarlet chiffon dress and crystal beads, going to a party. She used to play her violin at restaurants later on in life and at old people's homes. She loved the races, which she used to take me to as a child: our carpets were bought with her winnings. Loved her chickens. — Celia Imrie
Given the loss of a child or the birth of a child or anything like that, I think it's just I'm more moved by life, the older I get, so it's easier to connect to the characters that I play. — Milo Ventimiglia
Jehovah is the great Miracle Maker, the unrivaled Wonder worker. None can be likened unto Him, He is alone in wonderland, the Creator and Worker of true marvels, compared with which all other remarkable things are as child's play. — Charles Spurgeon
I played soccer, and I played in a band, and sometimes I was able to do a movie. And my school would cooperate. It was a very easy way to roll into what later became my profession. It's more innocent. When you're a child actor in the U.S., it's a different thing I think. — Michiel Huisman
It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you're a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are. — Billie Jean King
To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one’s self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived—this is to have succeeded. — Bessie Anderson Stanley
Graphic novels might really speak to one child who's struggling with the other kinds of reading and might help them discover that storytelling is joyful and personal and illuminating. They might find your way in auditorily by listening to audio books in the car instead of playing Game Boys or watching DVDs. — Emma Walton Hamilton
I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or just been one. I certainly liked entertaining people and making jokes, but I don't know necessarily if that's what your child is prone to that you should necessarily put them in a real working industry at six years old. — Natasha Lyonne
There is almost no limit to the possibilities of the imagination, but to get the full power of it, one must trust one's imagination. If you say to yourself constantly, as the mother says to the child, 'But this is only play; this is not real,' you never can make real the things you have created in thought. — Elsa Barker
Never play peek-a-boo with a child on a long plane trip. There's no end to the game. Finally I grabbed him by the bib and said, "Look, it's always gonna be me!" — Rita Rudner
He knew one thing only, and it was beyond fear or reason: He was not going to die crouching here like a child playing hide-and-seek; he was not going to die kneeling at Voldemort’s feet . . . he was going to die upright like his father, and he was going to die trying to defend himself, even if no defense was possible. . . . — J. K. Rowling
Evangelism as the New Testament describes it is not child's play. Evangelism is work, often hard work. Yet it is not drudgery. It puts person in good humor, and makes him truly human. — Oswald C. Hoffman
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