Quotes About Playmates

This child can't be allowed to have normal playmates; why, they'd pester it to death in no time.

I lived on the farm with my parents and grandparents. I had no playmates as a young child, and I was indulged. I helped my grandmother piece quilts, and we made pretty albums, an old-fashioned pastime. We cut poems and pictures out of magazines.

Children often have imaginary playmates. I suspect that half of them are really their guardian angels.

Nick glowered at Ash. Are we through now, Dad? Can I go play with my friends if I promise to be a good boy? I'll even try and make it home by curfew. Ash laughed evilly. Oh, absolutely, son. In fact, here come your new playmates now.

She knew that from childhood playmates grew beaux in later years, and the first duty of a girl was to get married. She told herself that the child was merely full of life and there was still time in which to teach her the arts and graces of being attractive to men.

As a child my name embarrassed me. Ragged by normally named playmates, I'd bawl. In one school I changed to Elizabeth. This alias was annulled once Daddy heard of it.

In reality, we are still children. We want to find a playmate for our thoughts and feelings.

Playmates are moms, too.

If I'd grown up here,I'd have had headless ghosts for playmates and kept my room in a tower. Alan maneuvered around one of the winding curves that only added to the atmosphere. The sea was close enough so its scent and sound drifted in the open windows. There aren't any ghosts, though my father periodically threatened to import a few bloodthirsty ones from Scotland. With his lips just curved, he sent Shelby a quick sidelong look. He keeps his office in a tower room.

Women had always existed: they had lived, a species to themselves, with the demons. But they had wanted playmates: and together they had made men.

That has a funny sound, but I knew there was value in it for me, because the world left me alone, and I liked that. I liked my solitude, my individuality, being alone on the street. I had playmates, and we did plenty of things together, but there was this general feeling of singularity. When I would go downtown on my own, I wasn't chattering with a lot of people about, "look at this, look at that." My mind was doing all the processing.

Maybe, as children, we are open to the spirit world, and see things adults or non-sensitive people don't see. Since children are not able to distinguish things or spirits from another reality, from beings in our world, perhaps they believe their invisible playmates are

Your playmates sent him?" I asked, nodding at the dead man. "I only talked to him with this," he said, patting the automatic on the bed, "but I reckon they did." "How did it happen?" "It happened simple enough. I heard the door opening, and I switched on the light, and there he was, and I shot him, and there he is.

Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends.

Children often have imaginary playmates. I suspect that half of them are really their guardian angels. -Eileen Elias Freeman, The Angels' Little Instruction Book