Enter into children's play and you will find the place where their minds, hearts, and souls meet. — Virginia Axline
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
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted. — Dr. Seuss
Children should enjoy the few years they have just being a kid. — Dwayne Hickman
Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing. — Plato
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
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are. — Desmond Tutu
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. — Aldous Huxley
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. — Plato
Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul. — Dave Pelzer
Children are happy because they’re not self-conscious. — Naval Ravikant
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong. — Marianne Williamson
Kids are at my level. I like goofing around with them. — John Goodman
Play is the most natural method of self-healing that childhood affords. — Erik Erikson
There was no language barrier when it came to kids, and when it came to play. — Connie Sellecca
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. — William Stafford
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. — Henry Ward Beecher
Little boys have amazing minds. — Ferdinand Marcos
Top 10 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
The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery. — Erik Erikson
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
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
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
Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children. — Keith Johnstone
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me — Isaac Newton
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
Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings. — Heraclitus
Children Playing Image Quotes
Don't just teach your children to read. Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.
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
You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: Played it safe.
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
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
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
Child's Play Quotes
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
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
Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love. — Craig Claiborne
A child can teach an adult three things: To be happy for no reason, to always be curious, to fight tirelessly for something.
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
Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
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
A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. — Rachel Carson
Children Learning Quotes
Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves. — Jean Piaget
What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow. — Lev S. Vygotsky
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach. — W. E. B. Du Bois
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
If you wish to leave much wealth to your children, leave them in God's care. Do not leave them riches, but virtue and skill. For if they learn to expect riches, they will not mind anything besides, and their abundant riches shall give them the means of screening the wickedness of their ways. — Saint John Chrysostom
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. — Albert Einstein
Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them — Lev S. Vygotsky
Once you're grown up you can't come back.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. — Carl Rogers
Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write and count. It is a small window of time to learn and develop at the pace that is right for each individual child. Earlier is not better. — Magda Gerber
The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. — Carol S. Dweck
The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn. — Maria Montessori
Children Love Quotes
Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. — Dalai Lama
The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm in work, gives us reason to hope that humanity can develop in a new direction. — Maria Montessori
I guarantee that the seed you plant in love, not matter how small, will grow into a mighty tree of refuge. We all want a future for ourselves and we must now care enough to create, nurture and secure a future for our children.” — Afeni Shakur
Dont handicap your children by making their lives easy.
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom. — Erik Erikson
Children are not a distraction from more inportant work. They are the most important work.
Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom. — Rudolf Steiner
Children desperately need to know - and to hear in ways they understand and remember - that they're loved and valued by mom and dad. — Gary Smalley
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. — Theodore Hesburgh
I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love. — Red Cloud
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
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
To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children... to leave the world a better place... to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Turning on the television set can turn off the process that transforms children into people... It is primarily through observing, playing, and working with others older and younger than himself that a child discovers both what he can do and who he can become — that he develops both his ability and his identity. — Urie Bronfenbrenner
In play, the child is always behaving beyond his age, above his usual everyday behaviour; in play he is, as it were, a head above himself. Play contains in a concentrated form, as in the focus of a magnifying glass, all developmental tendencies; it is as if the child tries to jump above his usual level. — Lev S. Vygotsky
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
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
It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise cattle, and I'm going to do it some day. There are lakes where a man can sink a hook and fight the bass. There is room here for my children to play and grow, and become good citizens-if the white man will let them. — Medgar Evers
No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted. The last 25 years of research show that reading aloud to a child is the oldest, cheapest and must successful method of instilling that desire. Shooting baskets with a child creates a basketball player; reading to a child creates a reader. — Jim Trelease
One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good. — Giorgio Agamben
Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall. — Fulton J. Sheen
If I cannot give my children a perfect mother I can at least give them more of the one they've got--and make that one more loving. I will be available. I will take time to listen, time to play, time to be home when they arrive from school, time to counsel and encouerage. — Ruth Graham
These data suggest very strongly that participating in the playing of violent video games by children and youth increase aggressive thought and behavior; increase antisocial behavior and delinquency; engender poor school performance; desensitize the game player to violence. — Leland Yee
The world over - 50 million children start playing tennis, 5 million learn to play tennis, 500,000 learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the grand slam, 50 reach Wimbledon, 4 to semi final, 2 to the finals, when I was holding a cup I never asked GOD 'Why me?'. And today in pain I should not be asking GOD 'Why me?' — Arthur Ashe
Indeed, the great Leonardo (da Vinci) remained like a child for the whole of his life in more than one way. It is said that all great men are bound to retain some infantile part. Even as an adult he continued to play, and this was another reason why he often appeared uncanny and incomprehensible to his contemporaries. — Sigmund Freud
The schools play an important role when it comes down to protecting children against violence.Violence is one of the principal reasons why children don't go to school. It's also one of the causes of the alarming school dropout rates. — Shakira
If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart. — Shinichi Suzuki
How you handle peer pressure - the pressure your children feel as well as the pressure you feel - in the early years will play a significant role in how your children handle peer pressure when they become adolescents. — Kevin Leman
We are all equal children before our mother; and India asks each one of us, in whatsoever role we play in the complex drama of nation-building, to do our duty with integrity, commitment and unflinching loyalty to the values enshrined in our Constitution. — Pranab Mukherjee
Look at children...
If they feel angry with someone,
they express it, and then it is finished.
They can still play with that person the following day. — Dalai Lama
I have changed nothing, my style of play is still that of a child. I know that above all it is my job and that I should approach it in another way, but one must not lose sight of the fact that football is a game. It is imperative one plays to amuse oneself, to be happy. That is what children do and I do the same thing. — Lionel Messi
A name, for me, is a short way of working out what class that child comes from. Do I want my child to play with them? — Sayings
When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park? — Ralph Marston
Cameroon is a football country - children are born playing football. — Roger Milla
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be. — George A. Sheehan
If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story. — John Lasseter
Whoever wants to understand much must play much. — Gottfried Benn
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